Author: CROPPER, ELIZABETH
Title: Dialogues in art history, from Mesopotamian to modern : readings for a new century / edited by Elizabeth Cropper
Description: Washington [D.C.] New Haven : National Gallery of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press 2009. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 424 pages : illustrations (some color). maps. music ; 29 cm. Summary; This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods. covering ancient Egypt. Mesopotamia. preconquest Mexico and Peru. Islam. China. Japan. Renaissance and baroque Italy. 18th- and 19th-century France. and the United States in the 20th century and today. The authors propose new readings as they challenge traditional systems of classification; interpret monuments in terms of their interaction with their environments; redefine the Italian Renaissance in light of the new vernacular sensibility that emerged in the Trecento; view portraiture both in close detail and in social and historical perspective; and point to the need to reconcile historical coherence with complexity in museum displays. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers. Elizabeth Hill Boone. Philippe Bordes. Betsy M. Bryan. C. Jean Campbell. Joseph Connors. Charles Dempsey. Marian H. Feldman. Finbarr Barry Flood. Hal Foster. Marc Gotlieb. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. Michael Leja. Yukio Lippit. Joanne Pillsbury. Louise Rice. David J. Roxburgh. Jeffrey Weiss. Mariet Westermann. and Wu Hung. Subject; Art — Congresses. ISBN: 0300121628. Weight in Kg appr.:

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