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Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art. Considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing Covers a diverse subject matter, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert The collection both contains essays that survey the topic as well as more specialist articles Brings together specialist contributors from both sides of the Atlantic

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Author:   Catherine Grant (Courtauld Institute of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ,  Patricia Rubin (Institute of Fine Arts, University of New York, USA) ,  Patricia Rubin
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781444350395

ISBN 10:   1444350390
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 'A narrative of what wishes what it wishes it to be': An Introduction to 'Creative Writing and Art History' Catherine Grant 22 Chapter 2 Writing Perceptions: The Matter of Words and the Rollright Stones Nicholas Chare 46 Chapter 3 (Blind Summit) Art Writing, Narrative, Middle Voice Gavin Parkinson 66 Chapter 4 Connoisseurship, Painting, and Personhood Jeremy Melius 88 Chapter 5 Under the Hat of the Art Historian: Panofsky, Berenson, Warburg Francesco Ventrella 110 Chapter 6 'The Liar': Fictions of the Person Patricia Rubin 130 Chapter 7 'Scattered notes': Authorship and Originality in Paul Gauguin's Diverses choses Linda Goddard 148 Chapter 8 'Sudden gleams of (f)light': 'Intuition as Method'? Charlotte de Mille 166 Chapter 9 Rotten Sun C. F. B. Miller 190 Chapter 10 Notes on Writing as Vertigo Satish Padiyar 201 Index

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Catherine Grant is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-ordinated the Writing Art History project at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Patricia Rubin and is the co-editor (with Lori Waxman) of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011).  Patricia Rubin is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Art History and the author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (1995),Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999), and Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007), and co-author of  Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999).

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