Research Catalog

Title

Michael Baxandall, vision and the work of words / edited by Peter Mack and Robert Williams.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Mack, Peter, 1955-
• Williams, Robert, 1955-2018
• Potts, Alex

Description

xii, 175 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

The most important art historian of his generation' is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall's work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. While influential, he was also an especially subtle and independent thinker - occasionally a controversial one - and many of the implications of his work have yet to be fully understood and assimilated. This collection of 10 essays endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall's achievement, and in particular to address the issue of the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today. This volume provides the most comprehensive assessment of Baxandall's work to date, while drawing upon the archive of Baxandall papers recently deposited at the Cambridge University Library and the Warburg Institute.

Series Statement

Studies in art historiography

Uniform Title

Studies in art historiography.

Subject

• 1900-talet
• Konsthistoriker
• Konst
• Historiografi

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The visual conditions of pictorial meaning / Alex Potts -- 'To do a Leavis on visual art:' the place of F.R. Leavis in Michael Baxandall's intellectual formation / Jules Lubbock -- Baxandall and Gramsci: pictorial intelligence and organic intellectuals / Alberto Frigo -- Art history, re-enactment, and the idiographic stance / Whitney Davis -- Inferential criticism and Kunstwissenschaft / Robert Williams -- The presence of light / Paul Hills -- Printing and experience in eighteenth-century Italy / Evelyn Lincoln -- Pattern and individual; limewood sculptors and a grasp of Kaspar / Peter Mack -- Michael Baxandall's 'stationing' / Elizabeth Cook.

Call Number

JQE 16-55

ISBN

• 9781472442789
• 1472442784

LCCN

• 2014040728
• 40025046327

OCLC

893317141

Title

Michael Baxandall, vision and the work of words / edited by Peter Mack and Robert Williams.

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in art historiography

Studies in art historiography.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK. BASED ON PAPERS FROM A 2012 CONFERENCE. EXAMINES ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES

Chronological Term

1900-talet

Added Author

Mack, Peter, 1955- editor.

Williams, Robert, 1955-2018, editor.

Potts, Alex. Visual conditions of pictorial meaning.

Other Standard Identifier

40025046327

Research Call Number

JQE 16-55