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Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes - Style and Classification in the History of Art (Paperback)
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Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes - Style and Classification in the History of Art (Paperback)
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Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese
art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art
historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted
discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those
discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival
Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently
scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated
Western studies of the bronzes. Revisiting a controversy that was
ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully
understood, Robert Bagley shows its methodological implications to
be profound. Starting with a close reading of the work of Karlgren,
he uses an analogy with biological taxonomy to clarify questions of
method and to distinguish between science and the appearance of
science. Then, turning to Loehr, he provides the rationale for an
art history that is concerned above all with constructing a
meaningful history of creative events, one that sees the
intentionality of designers and patrons as the driving force behind
stylistic change. In a concluding chapter he analyzes the concept
of style, arguing that many classic confusions in art historical
theorizing arise from a failure to recognize that style is not a
property of objects. Addressed not just to ancient China
specialists or historians of Chinese art, this book uses Loehr's
work on bronzes as a case study for exploring central issues of art
history. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the
analysis of visual materials.
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