Overview

Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of comparative in how art history may develop in the future. The contributors represent a comprehensive range of period and geographic command from antiquity to modernity, from China and Islam to Europe, from various forms of art history to archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies. Art history is less a single discipline than a series of divergent scholarly fields – in very different historical, geographic and cultural contexts – but all with a visual emphasis on the close examination of objects. These fields focus on different, often incompatible temporal and cultural contexts, yet nonetheless they regard themselves as one coherent discipline – namely the history of art. There are substantive problems in how the sub-fields within the broad-brush generalization called 'art history' can speak coherently to each other. These are more urgent since the shift from an art history centered on the western tradition to one that is consciously global.

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Author:   Jas Elsner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780367331146

ISBN 10:   0367331144
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   21 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison, by Stanley K. Abe and Jaś Elsner Chapter 1: Our Literal Speed, by Our Literal Speed Chapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations, by Wu Hung Chapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative, by Whitney Davis Chapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation, by Margaret Olin Chapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context, by Ittai Weinryb Chapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History, by Stanley K. Abe Chapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin, by Avinoam Shalem Chapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison – An Illusive Dream?, by Susanne Küchler Chapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison, by Richard Neer Chapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction, by Robert Slifkin Chapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art, by Jeremy Tanner

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Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA.

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