Past looking : historical imagination and the rhetoric of the image / Michael Ann Holly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holly, Michael Ann, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Art--Philosophy.

Visual communication in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 214 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any interpretation betrays the presence of an interpreter. In Past Looking, she challenges that view, arguing that historical objects of representational art are actively engaged in prefiguring the kinds of histories that can be written about them. Holly directs her attention to early modern works of visual art and their rhetorical roles in legislating the kind of tales told bout them by a few classic cultural commentaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Burckhardt's synchronic vision of the Italian Renaissance, Wölfflin's exemplification of the Baroque, Schapiro's and Freud's dispute over the meanings of Leonardo's art, and Panofsky's exegesis of the disguised symbolism of Northern Renaissance painting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Telling a Picture

2. Picturing Cultural History

3. Looking into the Past

4. Imagining the Baroque

5. Writing Leonardo Backwards

6. Witnessing an Annunciation

7. Reading Critical Theory

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501725692

1501725696

OCLC:

1132223788