Visual time : the image in history / Keith Moxey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moxey, Keith P. F., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Time and art.

Physical Description:

xiii, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in the discipline. To what extent are their artistic narratives commensurate with those told about Western art? Does time run at the same speed in all places? Keith Moxey argues that the discipline of art history has been too attached to interpreting works of art based on a teleological categorization-demonstrating how each work influences the next as part of a linear sequence-which he sees as tied to Western notions of modernity. In contrast, he emphasizes how the experience of viewing art creates its own aesthetic time, where the viewer is entranced by the work itself rather than what it represents about the historical moment when it was created. Moxey discusses the art, and writing about the art, of modern and contemporary artists, such as Gerard Sekoto, Thomas Demand, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Cindy Sherman, as well as the sixteenth-century figures Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, and Hans Holbein. In the process, he addresses the phenomenological turn in the study of the image, its application to the understanding of particular artists, the ways verisimilitude eludes time in both the past and the present, and the role of time in nationalist accounts of the past. Book jacket.

Contents:

Is modernity multiple?

Do we still need a Renaissance?

Contemporaneity's heterochronicity

Visual studies and the iconic turn

Bruegel's crows

Mimesis and iconoclasm

Impossible distance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822353546

0822353547

9780822353690

0822353695

OCLC:

816030846