An examination of the idealised High Art, and the private, personal, Low Art of the Renaissance, which aims to draw conclusions about class prejudice, gender stereotypes, and attitudes towards the ordinary which motivate such distinctions. This is volume 8 in the GARLAND STUDIES IN THE RENAISSANCE series.
An examination of the idealised High Art, and the private, personal, Low Art of the Renaissance, which aims to draw conclusions about class prejudice,...
In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers--from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried--have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years' worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the field who question its reliability or even its importance; it is a critique of art history for those in the field who may have been...
In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers--from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Frie...
