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Title: The Art of Art History
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Critical Anthology
Author: Donald Preziosi
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0199229848
EAN: 9780199229840
ISBN: 9780199229840
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Arts & Photography
Release Date: 26/02/2009
Description: What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be. This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: art as history; aesthetics; form, content, and style; anthropology; meaning and interpretation; authorship and identity; and the phenomenon of globalization. More than thirty readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Mary Kelly, and Michel Foucault are brought together, with editorial introductions to each topic providing background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake. This updated and expanded edition contains sixteen newly included extracts from key thinkers in the history of art, from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty; a new section on globalization; and also a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 238mm
Item Length: 168mm
Item Width: 36mm
Item Weight: 1408g
Book Series: Oxford History of Art
Release Year: 2009

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