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A History of Art History (Hardcover)
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An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins
to its modern predicaments In 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 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 Wo lfflin, 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.
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