A History Of Art History - 9780691156521

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian RenaissanceùLorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasariùmeasured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, howeverùJacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich W÷lfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrichùstruggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.

• | Author: Christopher S. Wood
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 472 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Art
• | ISBN-10: 0691156522
• | ISBN-13: 9780691156521