Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions about the nature of their discipline. Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care?
In "Writing Art History," Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville address these questions by exploring some assumptions at the discipline s foundation. Their project is to excavate the lost continuities between philosophical aesthetics, contemporary theory, and art history through close...
Faced with an increasingly media-saturated, globalized culture, art historians have begun to ask themselves challenging and provocative questions a...
