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008			190309t20192019njua e b 001 0 eng c
020			_a9780691204765 (paperback)
020			_a9780691156521 (cloth)
020			_a0691156522 (cloth)
035			_a(OCoLC)1089438714 _z(OCoLC)1117596896
050		4	_aN7480 _b.W66 2019
100	1		_aWood, Christopher S.
245	1	2	_aA history of art history / _cChristopher S. Wood.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2019.
300			_a461 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 409-443) and index.
520			_a"In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. 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. Synthesising and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline"--
520			_a"In this 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 and accessible 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 Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured 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, however--Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich--struggled 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."
650		4	_aArt _xHistoriography.
650		4	_aArt _xHistory.
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