The shaping of art history : meditations on a discipline /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008] |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 108 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271033051 0271033053 |
| Author Notes: | Patricia Emison is Professor of the History of Art at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Simple Art: Printed Works on Paper in the Age of Magnificence (2006), Creating the 'Divine' Artist from Dante to Michelangelo ( 2004), and The Art of Teaching: Sixteenth-Century Allegorical Prints and Drawings (1986). |