Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:30pm to 2pm
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In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, Christopher S. Wood (Professor of German, New York University) tracks the evolution of the historical study of art form the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this book asks after the kind of attention that works of art demand and their potential to disrupt chronological order and linear history. Wood treats topics as varied as value and collecting, materiality and monumentality, faith and form, following the impulse to return to enduring images and enlivening the fascination they continue to provoke. For students and scholars of visual culture working outside the discipline of art history, this book offers an invaluable account of its intellectual history and a provocative argument for its ongoing necessity.
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