The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline Book

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.Read More

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  • 0271033061
  • 9780271033068
  • Patricia A. Emison
  • 15 May 2009
  • Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 120
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