Comparativism in Art History (Studies in Art Historiography)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQ238K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 541 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The contributors represent a comprehensive range of period and geographic command from antiquity to modernity, from China and Islam to Europe, from various forms of art history to archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of comparative in how art history may develop in the future. These fields focus on different, often incompatible temporal and cultural contexts, yet nonetheless they regard themselves as one coherent discipline ? namely the history of art. Art history is less a single discipline than a series of divergent scholarly fields ? in very different historical, geographic and cultural contexts ? but all with a visual emphasis on the close examination of objects. These are more urgent since the shift from an art history centered on the western tradition to one that is consciously global.. There are substantive problems in how the sub-fields within the broad-brush generalization called 'art history' can speak coherently to each other. Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline
. Ja Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA
About the AuthorJa Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA.