What is it that art historians do when they approach works of art?
What kind of language do they use to descibe what they see? How do
they construct arguments using visual evidence? What sorts of
arguments do they make? In this unusual anthology, eighteen
prominent art historians specializing in the medieval field
(European, Byzantine, and Islamic) provide answers to these
fundamental questions, not directly but by way of example. Each
author, responding to invitation, has chosen for study a single
image or object and has submitted it to sustained analysis. The
collection of essays, accompanied by statements on methodology by
the editors, offers an accessible introduction to current
art-historical practice. Elizabeth Sears is George H. Forsyth Jr.
Collegiate Professor of Art at the University of Michigan. She has
received numerous fellowships and awards, including a John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Research Fellowship at the
American Academy in Berlin, and a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship at
the British School in Rome.
Thelma K. Thomas is Associate Professor of the History of Art
and Associate Curator of the Kelsey Museum, University of
Michigan.
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