Main entry:

Carrier, David, 1944- author.

Title & Author:

Principles of art history writing / David Carrier.

Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1991]
©1991

Description:

xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preservation as interpretation. -- Piero della Francesca: modern interpretation of renaissance artworks. -- Caravaggio: the construction of an artistic personality. -- Allegory in Flemish art: comparative interpretations of Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin. -- The history of art history. -- Ekphrasis and interpretation: the creation of modern art history. -- Winckelmann and Pater: two styles of art-historical writing. -- David's Oath of the Horatii: the search for sources of an eighteenth-century masterpiece. -- Toward a revisionist art history. -- Where is the painting? The place of the spectator in art history writing. -- When is the painting? The temporal place of the spectator in art history writing. -- Manet: modernist art, postmodernist artwriting. -- Matisse: the end of classical art history and the fictions of early modernism.

Summary:

"Principles of Art History Writing traces the changes in the way in which writers about art represent the same works. These differ in such deep ways as to raise the question of whether those at the beginning of the process even saw the same things as those at the end did. Carrier uses four case studies to identify and explain changing styles of restoration and the history of interpretation of selected works by Piero, Caravaggio, and van Eyck." -- Back cover

ISBN:

0271007117 (acid-free paper)
9780271007113 (acid-free paper)
0271009454 (pbk.)
9780271009452 (pbk.)

Subject:

Campin, Robert 1375-1444
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 1571-1610
David, Jacques Louis 1748-1825
Eyck, Jan van 1390-1441
Manet, Edouard 1832-1883
Piero della Francesca 1416-1492
Art Historiography.
Art Historiographie.
20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences.
20.03 methods and techniques of the art sciences.
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Vakbeoefening.
Wetenschappelijke technieken.
Geschiedschrijving.
Kunstgeschichte
histoire de l'art (discipline)
Konsthistorieskrivning.
Historiografi.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 93334
Call No.: ID N380.C37; ID:95-B956
Status: Available