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Author: Daniel Unger
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Edition: 0
Volume: 8
ISBN: 9789462986015
ISBN 10: 9462986010
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 25 February 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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"""There is a long history of dispute over the word eclecticism and its application to paintings of the Carracci school. Unger (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) surveys the rise and fall of that term and makes a valiant and deft attempt to resuscitate it and apply it to particular works. Unger sorts out knotty controversies = clearly and cogently, aware that postmodernism currently makes new space for eclecticism."" Summing Up: Recommended - P. Emison, University of New Hampshire, CHOICE Reviews, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3"
There is a long history of dispute over the word eclecticism and its application to paintings of the Carracci school. Unger (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) surveys the rise and fall of that term and makes a valiant and deft attempt to resuscitate it and apply it to particular works. Unger sorts out knotty controversies = clearly and cogently, aware that postmodernism currently makes new space for eclecticism. Summing Up: Recommended - P. Emison, University of New Hampshire, CHOICE Reviews, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3
= there is a long history of dispute over the word eclecticism and its application to paintings of the Carracci school. Unger (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) surveys the rise and fall of that term and makes a valiant and deft attempt to resuscitate it and apply it to particular works. Unger sorts out knotty controversies = clearly and cogently, aware that postmodernism currently makes new space for eclecticism. Summing Up: Recommended -- P. Emison, University of New Hampshire, *CHOICE Reviews*, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3
= there is a long history of dispute over the word eclecticism and its application to paintings of the Carracci school. Unger (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) surveys the rise and fall of that term and makes a valiant and deft attempt to resuscitate it and apply it to particular works. Unger sorts out knotty controversies = clearly and cogently, aware that postmodernism currently makes new space for eclecticism. Summing Up: Recommended -- P. Emison, University of New Hampshire, *CHOICE Reviews*, November 2019 Vol. 57 No. 3
Author Information
Daniel M. Unger teaches the History of Early Modern Art at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His research focuses on seventeenth-century Bolognese and Roman painting. His recent book Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting: Ideology, Practice, and Criticism was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2019.
