Writing Art History Iversen Margaretk
Writing Art History Iversen Margaretk Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the…
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Writing Art History Iversen Margaretk
Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? Why did the history of art come into being?
In "Writing Art History", Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville address these questions by exploring some assumptions at the discipline's foundation. And, if so, should we care? Their project is to excavate the lost continuities between philosophical aesthetics, contemporary theory, and art history through close readings of figures as various as Michael Baxandall, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, and Alois Riegl.
Ultimately, the authors propose that we might reframe the questions concerning art history by asking what kind of writing might help the discipline to better imagine its actual practices - and its potential futures.