What is research in the visual arts? : obsession, archive, encounter

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What is research in the visual arts? : obsession, archive, encounter

edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith

(Clark studies in the visual arts)

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Distributed by Yale University Press, c2008

  • : Clark : pbk
  • : Yale : pbk

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"This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference ... held 27 and 28 April 2007 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts."--T.p. verso

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With essays by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Marc Gotlieb, Serge Guilbaut, Michael Ann Holly, Akira Mizuta Lippit, W. J. T. Mitchell, Joanne Morra, Sina Najafi, Alexander Nemerov, Celeste Olalquiaga, Alexander Potts, and Reva Wolf The discipline of art history is in a moment of self-consciousness, and art historians are increasingly more self-reflexive about their practices. In this volume, thirteen authors address both the philosophical and practical issues now facing those in the visual arts field by investigating the ever-pressing issue of research. Their essays explore the remarkable nature of art historians' personal, political, aesthetic, creative, and emotive curiosity and the process of doing research in the archive, library, studio, gallery, museum, and beyond. As such, the book considers the pleasures and dangers of researchers' obsessions and encounters with the incoherence, chaos, and wonder that lie at the heart of searching for the not-yet-known. The volume is based on the 2007 Clark Conference of the same name. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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  • NCID
    BA88469069
  • ISBN
    • 9780931102806
    • 9780300134131
  • LCCN
    2008033406
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Williamstown, Mass.,New Haven
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 215 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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