Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed in works of art? How do art historians employ or resist devices of fiction, and what are the effects of those choices on the reader? In styles by turns witty, elliptical, and plain-speaking, the essays in Fictions of Art History are fascinating and provocative critical interventions in art history.
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Art Theory & CriticismTable of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Compelling Fictions
- Part One: Entanglements
- Weightless History: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt
- A Novelist among Artists: Gordon Burn and “Young British Art”
- Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian
- The Case of the Errant Art Historian
- Part Two: Not Who You Think I Am
- Face to Face with Fiction: Portraiture and the Biographical Tradition
- “I Am Not Who You Think I Am”: Attributing the Humanist Portrait, Identifying the Art-Historical Subject
- Fictional Deceptions: A True Story
- The Art-Historical Photograph as Fiction: The Pretense of Objectivity
- Part Three: Artists, Stories, Objects
- “The Reality Bodily before Us”: Picturing the Arabian Nights
- The Ekphrastic O
- Anecdotes and the Life of Art History
- The Text is Present
- Contributors
- Photography Credits
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