Title & Author:

The lure of the object / edited by Stephen Melville.

Publication:

Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2005.

Description:

x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Clark studies in the visual arts

Notes:
Based on the proceedings of a conference held Apr. 30-May 1, 2004 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Based on the proceedings of the Clark conference "The Lure of the Object", held Apr. 30-May 1, 2004 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Includes bibliographical references.
The lure of Leonardo / John Brewer -- Dan Graham Inc. and the fetish of self-property / Emily Apter -- Quiccheberg and the copious object : Wenzel Jamnitzer's silver writing box / Mark A. Meadow -- Naturalezas mexicanas : objects as cultural signifiers in Mexican art, c. 1760-1875 / Edward J. Sullivan -- Material as language in contemporary art / Christian Scheidemann -- Art in the age of visual culture : France in the 1930s? / Martha Ward -- Photography's expanded field / George Baker -- Some object histories and the materiality of the sculptural object / Malcolm Baker -- Encountering the object / Karen Lang -- The object as subject / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- The surrealist situation of the photographed object / Margaret Iversen -- Eros and the readymade / Helen Molesworth -- Responding to allure / Martha Buskirk -- The lure of the object / Marcia Pointon.

Summary:

This volume examines the force of art history's attraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the discipline.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description
Klappentext
Klappentext

ISBN:

0931102618 (Clark ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780931102615 (Clark ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
0300103379 (Yale)
9780300103373 (Yale)

Subject:

Masterpiece, Artistic Congresses.
Art criticism Congresses.
Art appreciation.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Art) Congrès.
Critique d'art Congrès.
Art Appréciation.
Art criticism
Masterpiece, Artistic
Kunstwerk

Form/genre:

Kongress Williamstown (Mass.) 2004.
Conference papers and proceedings
Konferenzschrift 2004 Williamstown Mass.

Added entries:

Melville, Stephen W.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Clark studies in the visual arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249414
Call No.: BIB 178999
Status: Available