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A History of Art History
Christopher S. Wood
- 464 pages
- English
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A History of Art History
Christopher S. Wood
About This Book
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline.The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian RenaissanceâLorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasariâmeasured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, howeverâJacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrichâstruggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline.Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 800â 1400
- 1400â 1500
- 1500â 1550
- 1550â 1600
- 1600â 1650
- 1650â 1700
- 1700â 1750
- 1750â 1770
- 1770â 1790
- 1790â 1810
- 1810â 1830
- 1830â 1850
- 1850â 1870
- 1870â 1890
- 1890â 1900
- 1900â 1910
- 1910â 1920
- 1920â 1930
- 1930â 1940
- 1940â 1950
- 1950â 1960
- CONCLUSIONS: NOVISSIMA
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- PHOTO CREDITS