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Picturing Art History: the rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the eighteenth century

Door Ingrid R. Vermeulen

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#288907
Titel	Picturing Art History: the rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the eighteenth century
Auteur	Vermeulen, Ingrid R.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	9089640312
ISBN13	9789089640314
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in b/w.
Samenvatting	Books on art history are nearly always lavishly illustrated with quality colour reproductions of famous masterpieces. Yet this has not always been the case: it was only in the eighteenth century that art books came to be illustrated with beautiful images. Picturing Art History shows how the fundamentally new notion of the history of art as a visual history was responsible for this development. In the age before photography, paper collections of prints and drawings offered the only way to picture the artistic past. For the first time, illustrations became indispensable tools as the new belief grew that art works rather than artists were the measure of the artistic past. Internationally renowned art scholars such as Bottari (1689-1775), Winckelmann (1717-1768) and d'Agincourt (1730-1814) c... (Lees verder)ollected reproductions in the form of prints and drawings, triggering discussions of the nature of illustrations as representations of art, classification of reproductions to demonstrate trends in art history, and the relationship between image and text in the art literature. With the help of illustrations, art history became an extraordinary visual experience, vital to the understanding of the history of art.
Pagina's	358
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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