Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century (Studies in the History of Art Series)

 

Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century (Studies in the History of Art Series) Hardcover – May 26, 2009

by Elizabeth Cropper (Editor)

This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, China, Japan, Renaissance and baroque Italy, 18th- and 19th-century France, and the United States in the 20th century and today.

Contents

• Memory and knowledge in Egyptian tomb painting /​ Betsy M. Bryan
• Knowledge as cultural biography : lives of Mesopotamian monuments /​ Marian H. Feldman
• When art is writing and writing, art : graphic communication in preconquest Mexico /​ Elizabeth Hill Boone
• Reading art without writing : interpreting Chimú architectural sculpture /​ Joanne Pillsbury
• Islamic identities and Islamic art : inscribing the Qurʼan in twelfth-century Afghanistan /​ Finbarr Barry Flood
• Concepts of the portrait in the Islamic lands, c.1300-1600 /​ David J. Roxburgh
• Rethinking East Asian tombs : a methodological proposal /​ Wu Hung
• Urakami Gyokudō : an intoxicology of Japanese literati painting /​ Yukio Lippit
• Importance of vernacular style in Renaissance art : the invention of Simone Martini's Maestà in the Palazzo Communale in Siena /​ Charles Dempsey
• Simone Martini, Petrarch, and the vernacular poetics of early Renaissance art /​ C. Jean Campbell
• Holy redundancy and echo in the Lateran Basilica in Rome /​ Joseph Connors
• Simon Vouet's Hesperus and the mythopoetics of praise /​ Louise Rice
• Taking Dutch art seriously : now and then /​ Svetlana Alpers
• Taking Dutch art seriously : now and next? /​ Mariët Westermann
• Taking Dutch art seriously : discussion
• Image matters : the case of Boucher /​ Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
• Interpreting portraits : images of society or the self? /​ Phillipe Bordes
• Figures of sublimity in Orientalist painting /​ Marc Gotlieb
• American art history after 11/​2 /​ Michael Leja
• Museum tales of twentieth-century art /​ Hal Foster
• I stagger from this temple of the loftiest pleasures with a splitting head : encounters in the space of art /​ Jeffrey Weiss.

內容

在埃及古墓繪畫中的記憶和知識/ Betsy M. Bryan

作為文化傳記的知識：美索不達米亞古蹟的生活/瑪麗安H。費爾德曼

當藝術寫作和寫作時，藝術：墨西哥/伊麗莎白希爾布恩的預先授權中的圖形傳播

在沒有寫作的情況下閱讀藝術：解讀Chimú建築雕塑/ Joanne Pillsbury

伊斯蘭身份和伊斯蘭藝術：在十二世紀的阿富汗/芬巴爾巴里洪水中刻上古蘭經

伊斯蘭土地上的肖像概念，c.1300-1600 / David J. Roxburgh

反思東亞古墓：方法論提案/巫鴻

UrakamiGyokudō：日本文人畫的毒理學/ Yukio Lippit

文藝復興時期藝術中鄉土風格的重要性：錫耶納宮內的Simone Martini'sMaestà的發明/ Charles Dempsey

西蒙娜·馬提尼，彼得拉克和文藝復興早期藝術的白話詩學/ C.讓·坎貝爾

羅馬拉特蘭大教堂/約瑟夫康納斯的神聖多餘和迴聲

Simon Vouet的Hesperus和讚美/路易絲賴斯的神話學

認真對待荷蘭藝術：不時/斯韋特蘭娜阿爾珀斯

認真對待荷蘭藝術：現在和未來？ /MariëtWestermann

認真對待荷蘭藝術：討論

形像很重要：Boucher / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth的案例

解讀肖像：社會或自我的形象？ / Phillipe Bordes

東方主義繪畫中的崇高姿態/馬克戈特利布

11/2 / Michael Leja之後的美國藝術史

二十世紀藝術博物館的故事/ Hal Foster

我從這個最高貴的樂趣的廟宇中搖搖晃晃地來到了藝術空間/杰弗裡·韋斯（Jeffrey Weiss）。

About the Author

Elizabeth Cropper is dean of the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Svetlana Alpersis professor emerita of the histoy of art at University of California - Berkeley, and visiting scholar in the department of art history at New York University. Elizabeth Hill Boone is the Robertson Chair in Latin American art at Tulane University and former director of pre-Columbian studies at Dumbarton Oaks. Philippe Bordes is professor of art history at the Universite de Lyon 2 and Directeur des etudes et de la recherche at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art in Paris. Betsy M. Bryan is the Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University. C. Jean Campbell is professor of art history at Emory University. Joseph Connors is director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Charles Dempsey is professor emeritus of Italian renaissance and baroque art at Johns Hopkins University.  Marian H. Feldman is associate professor of ancient Near Eastern art at the University of California - Berkeley.

Finbarr Barry Flood is associate professor in the Institute of Fine Arts and department of art history at New York University. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor and chair of the department of art and archaeology at Princeton University. Marc Gotlieb is professor of art history at Williams College, and director of the Williams/Clark Art Institute graduate program in the history of art. Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese art history and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Michael Leja is professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. Yukio Lippit is assistant professor of Japanese art in the department of history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Joanne Pillsbury is director of pre-Columbian studies at Dumbarton Oaks. Louise Rice is an associate professor of art history at New York University and the James S. Ackerman Resident in Art History at the American Academy in Rome for 2008. David J. Roxburgh is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic art history in the department of history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Jeffrey Weiss is an independent scholar, and the former director of the Dia Art Foundation and head of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Mariet Westermann is vice chancellor for New York University in Abu Dhabi.

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