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Rethinking Art History : Meditations on a Coy Science by Donald Preziosi (1991, Trade Paperback)
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A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. As the book unfolds, one realizes that art history was never as unitary and monolithic as the phrase ‘the discipline of art history’ suggests, but is in fact a complicated and highly contradictory range of practices whose disciplinary coherence may be more mythical than real.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300049838
ISBN-139780300049831
eBay Product ID (ePID)99594
Product Key Features
Number of Pages285 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRethinking Art History : Meditations on a Coy Science
Publication Year1991
SubjectHistory / General
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
AuthorDonald Preziosi
Subject AreaArt
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal707/.2
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisA general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the discipline, its institutionalization, and its academic expansion since the 1870s. "Donald Preziosi has written a timely and incisive study of the methods and assumptions of art history in the modern period. As the book unfolds, one realizes that art history was never as unitary and monolithic as the phrase 'the discipline of art history' suggests, but is in fact a complicated and highly contradictory range of practices whose disciplinary coherence may be more mythical than real. This is a deliberately discomforting book; however, for its clear-sightedness, rigor, and wit, it is a book to be welcomes by everyone concerned with the present condition and future direction of visual studies."--Norman Bryson, Harvard University "An important and courageous book, Rethinking Art History is a rigorous and original contribution to the current post-structuralist and postmodernist debates in cultural studies here and abroad."--Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College "Through this kind of reading of the discourse of art history, Preziosi provides some acute analysis of the metaphors and stratagems which continue to discipline the discipline of art history." Donald Preziosi is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles
LC Classification NumberN380.P68 1989
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