Michael Baxandall, vision and the work of words / Edited by Peter Mack and Robert Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mack, Peter, 1955- editor.

Williams, Robert, 1955-2018, editor.

Series:

Studies in art historiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baxandall, Michael.

Physical Description:

xii, 175 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Summary:

The most important art historian of his generation' is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall's work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall's achievement, and in particular to address the issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of Baxandall's work to date, while drawing upon the archive of Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University Library and the Warburg Institute.

Contents:

The visual conditions of pictorial meaning / Alex Potts

'To do a Leavis on visual art:' the place of F.R. Leavis in Michael Baxandall's intellectual formation / Jules Lubbock

Baxandall and Gramsci: pictorial intelligence and organic intellectuals / Alberto Frigo

Art history, re-enactment, and the idiographic stance / Whitney Davis

Inferential criticism and Kunstwissenschaft / Robert Williams

The presence of light / Paul Hills

Printing and experience in eighteenth-century Italy / Evelyn Lincoln

Pattern and individual; limewood sculptors and a grasp of Kaspar / Peter Mack

Michael Baxandall's 'stationing' / Elizabeth Cook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Potts, Alex. Visual conditions of pictorial meaning.

ISBN:

9781472442789

1472442784

OCLC:

893317141