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9780271033068 Academic Inspection Copy

The Shaping of Art History

Meditations on a Discipline
  • ISBN-13: 9780271033068
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Patricia Emison
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2008
  • Format: Paperback 120 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Art techniques & principles [AGZ]
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In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers—from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried—have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years’ worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the field who question its reliability or even its importance; it is a critique of art history for those in the field who may have been preoccupied with looking at trees but who might be interested in trying to see the forest.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Why Not Just Write Biography?

2. Toward a More Chaotic Definition of Style

3. Venturing Somewhat Beyond Freud

4. Rated XX

5. The Bottom Line

6. Back to Idolatry?

Brief Bibliographies

List of Illustrations

Index



“[The Shaping of Art History] would be a welcome read in an advanced undergraduate methodological survey, or even a master’s level survey of methods. Even the nonspecialist could become absorbed in it. Hundreds of sentences in this book are quotable.”

—Kathryn M. Rudy, Sixteenth Century Journal

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