Comparativism in Art History

Herausgeber: Elsner, Jas

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Produktbeschreibung

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. The essays assess the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of the comparative in how art history may develop in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781472418845
• ISBN-10: 1472418840
• Artikelnr.: 47613132

Autorenporträt

Jä 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison
by Stanley K. Abe and Jä Elsner Chapter 1: Our Literal Speed
by Our Literal Speed Chapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations
by Wu Hung Chapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative
by Whitney Davis Chapter 4: Redundacy
Transformation
Impersonation
by Margaret Olin Chapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context
by Ittai Weinryb Chapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History
by Stanley K. Abe Chapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne
Ernst Herzfeld
and the Myth of Origin
by Avinoam Shalem Chapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison - An Illusive Dream?
by Susanne Küchler Chapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison
by Richard Neer Chapter 10: Christian Marclay's Real Time Fiction
by Robert Slifkin Chapter 11: Narrative
Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art
by Jeremy Tanner