Fricke, Beate
Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were (ICMA Books | Viewpoints)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780271093284
- author:
- Fricke, Beate
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- language:
- English
- Pages:
- 168
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 1.1 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Criticism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Art historians face significant challenges when studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, been destroyed, or never existed. This concise volume addresses these problems by exploring the connections between object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography.
The contributors to this book examine how people have made sense of the past by analyzing objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. They also reflect on the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only revealed in the historian's present tense.
This highly original and theoretically sophisticated volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.
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