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A History of Art History / Christopher Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Christopher, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Art--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (472 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline.The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance-Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari-measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however-Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich-struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline.Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 800-1400
- 1400-1500
- 1500-1550
- 1550-1600
- 1600-1650
- 1650-1700
- 1700-1750
- 1750-1770
- 1770-1790
- 1790-1810
- 1810-1830
- 1830-1850
- 1850-1870
- 1870-1890
- 1890-1900
- 1900-1910
- 1910-1920
- 1920-1930
- 1930-1940
- 1940-1950
- 1950-1960
- Conclusions: Novissima
- References
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-443) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780691194318
- 0691194319
- OCLC:
- 1108619501
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