Title & Author:

Renaissance theory / edited by James Elkins and Robert Williams.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Description:

x, 550 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

The art seminar ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Renaissance theory : a selective introduction / Rebecca Zorach -- Introduction to an abandoned book / James Elkins -- Vasari's renaissance and its renaissance alternatives / Stephen J. Campbell -- The concept of the renaissance today : what is at stake? / Claire Farago -- Rethinking the divide : cult images and the cult of images / Fredrika Jacobs -- Gothic as renaissance : ornament, excess, and identity, circa 1500 / Ethan Matt Kavaler -- Italian renaissance art and the systematicity of representation / Robert Williams -- The art seminar. Participants: Stephen J. Campbell, Michael Cole, James Elkins, Claire Farago, Fredrika Jacobs, Ethan Matt Kavaler, Robert WIlliams -- Assessments. Jan von Bonsdorff ; Una Roman D'Elia ; Lisa Pon ; Charlotte M. Houghton ; Lubomír Konečný ; Ingrid Ciulisová ; Frédéric Elsig ; Jeanette Favrot Peterson ; Thomas Puttfarken ; Patricia Emison ; Joanna Woods-Marsden ; Maria Ruvoldt ; Marzia Faietti ; Caroline van Eck ; Robert Zwinjnenberg ; Elizabeth Alice Honig ; Alice Jarrard ; Pamela H. Smith ; Adrian W.B. Randolph -- Renaissance theory? / Alessandro Nova -- Hugging the shore / James Elkins and Robert Williams.

Summary:

"Volume 5 in The Art Seminar series, Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last 30 years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism?"--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

9780415960458
0415960452
9780415960465 (pbk.)
0415960460 (pbk.)
9780203929865 (e-book)
0203929861 (e-book)

Subject:

Art, Renaissance.
Art Philosophy.
Art de la Renaissance.
Art Philosophie.
Renaissance
Ästhetik
art européen Renaissance congrès.
art théorie Renaissance réception congrès.
Renässanskonst.
Konstfilosofi.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Elkins, James, 1955-
Williams, Robert, 1955-2018.
Art seminar ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259694
Call No.: BIB 190612
Status: Available