Is art history? : selected writings / Svetlana Alpers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alpers, Svetlana, Author.

Kulok, Barney, Author of introduction, etc.

Meyer, Richard, 1966- Author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Art--History.

Art--Historiography.

Artists--Biography.

Artists.

Art--History and criticism.

art history.

Genre:

Art criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxi, 359 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

monochrome

polychrome

illustration

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Long Island City, NY : Hunters Point Press, 2024

Summary:

"Is Art History? is a ... volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century. The book brings together Alpers's contributions to the art historical discipline and her considerations of the continuing possibilities of painting as an art. Her writing spans over six decades beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of her chosen discipline, including a foundational essay on Vasari (1960), 'Is Art History?' (1970), 'Style is What You Make It' (1979), and 'Art History and Its Exclusions' (1982); two influential but never before published lectures and other unpublished public presentations; notable critical essays on art, and recent texts on contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy and Shirley Jaffe and others. Is Art History? also includes new prefatory notes written by the author for this occasion, an unexpected introduction by her former student, the esteemed scholar-critic Richard Meyer (Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History, Stanford University), and a revealing interview with the German author and critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler" -- Hunterspointpress.com.

"Is Art History? is a ... volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century. The book brings together Alpers's contributions to the art historical discipline and her considerations of the continuing possibilities of painting as an art. Her writing spans over six decades beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of her chosen discipline, including a foundational essay on Vasari (1960), 'Is Art History?' (1970), 'Style is What You Make It' (1979), and 'Art History and Its Exclusions' (1982); two influential but never before published lectures and other unpublished public presentations; notable critical essays on art, and recent texts on contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy and Shirley Jaffe and others. Is Art History? also includes new prefatory notes written by the author for this occasion, an unexpected introduction by her former student, the esteemed scholar-critic Richard Meyer (Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History, Stanford University), and a revealing interview with the German author and critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler" -- Hunterspointpress.com.

Contents:

Foreword / Barney Kulok

Image folk, or, Why I read Svetlana Alpers / Richard Meyer

Ekphrasis and aesthetic attitudes in Vasari's Lives (1960)

Bruegel's festive peasants (1972-73)

Describe or narrate? A problem in realistic representation (1976)

Is art history? (1977)

Style is what you make it: the visual arts once again (1979)

Art history and its exclusions: the example of Dutch art (1982)

Interpretation without representation, or, The viewing of Las Meninas (1983)

The museum as a way of seeing (1991)

No telling, with Tiepolo (1994)

On visiting the Dutch galleries of the Grand Louvre (1995)

The making of History of Art 15 (1995)

The strangeness of Vermeer (1996)

Rebecca Horn: Chorus of the Locusts I and II, 1991 (1996)

What are we looking for? Expectations in art history (1999)

Katz in style [Alex Katz] (2001)

Instances of distance (2002)

On (and for) Richard Wollheim (2005)

On the life of painting (2005)

"Symbolic Essence"/Looking Askance/The Open Studio/Giorgio Morandi (2005)

Velázquez is in the details (2006)

Podro on the mind (2009)

Open to words: Vermeer and globalization (2009)

Words for photographs [Barney Kulok] (2009)

Paintings/problems/possibilities (2009)

It's all about looking [Tacita Dean] (2013)

Rembrandt at the National Gallery in London (2015)

Portraits: John Berger on Artists (2015)

Lawrence Gowing: Selected Writings on Art (2015)

William Empson: The Face of the Buddha (2016)

From the ground up [Catherine Murphy] (2016)

Bradley Walker Tomlin, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (2016)

The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science at Harvard's Teaching Cabinet 1766-1820 (2017)

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale (2018)

Monet the Collector (2018)

Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism (2020)

Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint (2021)

Chardin's La Raie [Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin] (2021)

At a loss for words [Shirley Jaffe] (2022)

A working life [Judith Joy Ross] (2022)

Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez (2023)

"I am a maker person," interviews with Ulf Erdmann Ziegler (2015/2022)

A parting thought.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9798218206482

OCLC:

1437723591

Publisher Number:

40032583802