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The intelligence of art

Thomas Crow

(Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history)

University of North Carolina Press, c1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-114) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780807824535

Description

With this volume, the author contributes an analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it "intelligible". He aims to relocate the discussion of theory and method in art history away from models borrowed from other disciplines. Sketching the history of trends in art history - from description and biography, to social-historical methods, to the wave of postmodernist approaches - he seeks to set out a course that affirmsthe tools of language and methodology developed by generations of art historians.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780807849002

Description

With this volume, the author contributes an analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it ""intelligible"". He aims to relocate the discussion of theory and method in art history away from models borrowed from other disciplines. Sketching the history of trends in art history - from description and biography, to social-historical methods, to the wave of postmodernist approaches - he seeks to set out a course that affirmsthe tools of language and methodology developed by generations of art historians.

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  • NCID
    BA42328987
  • ISBN
    • 0807824534
    • 0807849006
  • LCCN
    98029624
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chapel Hill
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 120 p., [12] of plates : ill. (some col.)
  • Size
    25 cm
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