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History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past

Door Francis Haskell

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#383840-WE9
Titel	History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
Auteur	Haskell, Francis
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven/London : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0300055404
ISBN13	9780300055405
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous illustrations in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	Over the last four centuries, historians have increasingly turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this wide-ranging and engrossing book, a distinguished art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material, and he examines the specific objects that became available to them through excavation, the creation of private collections and public museums, easier means of travel, and the startling displacements brought about by vandalism and art exhibitions. Francis Haskell begins by discussing the antiquarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who brought to light and interpreted as historical evidence coins, sculptures, paintings discovered in the catacombs beneath Rome and other relics surviving from earlier a... (Lees verder)ges. He explains that, in the eighteenth century, historians gradually began to acknowledge the significance of such visual sources and to draw on them in order to validate and give colour to their narratives or to utilize them as foundation stones for a new branch of learning - the history of culture. Later writers followed the example of Michelet in making inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age, while (more erratically) others saw in them the harbingers of political, religious or social upheavals. Haskell concludes by discussing those cultural historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Burckhardt and Huizinga above all, who did not merely give the visual arts a prominent and necessary place in their interpretations of the past, but in some ways actually interpreted the past through the visual arts.
Pagina's	558
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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