Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago

Broschiertes Buch

Art Is Not What You Think It Is

Beschreibung

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original researchto present a series of critical incursions into the current stateof debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largelymissing or unsaid in those discussions.

Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to therealities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they havestructurally functioned in a variety of contexts
Deals with divisive and controversial problems such asblasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth
Addresses relations between European notions about art andartifice and those developed in other and especially indigenouscultural traditions

Autor

Donald Preziosi is Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA, and Former Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. He trained in art history, classics, and linguistics at Harvard, and is the author and co-author of many books including The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (2009). Claire Farago is Professor of Renaissance Art Theory and Criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is author and co-author of many books on art theory, historiography, and museums, and is an authority on the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci. Her numerous publications include Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009). Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago have previously collaborated as co-editors of Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (2004).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Manifestos .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781405192392
• ISBN-10: 1405192399
• Artikelnr.: 33841070