Ivan Gaskell

Paintings and the Past

Philosophy, History, Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781032092638
• ISBN-10: 1032092637
• Artikelnr.: 62153358

Autorenporträt

Ivan Gaskell is Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies at Bard Graduate Center, New York City. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books, most recently Tangible Things: Making History through Objects (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Why Paintings? Why Art?
Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Meaning
Chapter 3: To Draw, to Paint
Chapter 4: Genius, a Warning
Chapter 5: Material Realities: Trompe l'oeil
Chapter 6: Paintings that Might or Might not be Art: Poland
Chapter 7: Paintings that Might or Might not be Art: China
Chapter 8: The Artist's Mark
Chapter 9: Conditions of Encounter
Chapter 10: A Painter's Tale