Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World’s Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0300097905 ISBN 13: 9780300097900

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2006

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How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a regional tradition but as a worldwide phenomenon? In this groundbreaking book, leading academics, curators, bibliographers, and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express.

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With essays by Cao Yiqiang, Rita Eder, James Elkins, Arlene K. Fleming, Derek Gillman, Jyotindra Jain, Cecelia F. Klein, Yves Le Fur, Dominic Marner, Anitra Nettleton, John Onians, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Michael Rinehart, David Summers, Wilfried van Damme, and Georges S. Zouain _____________________________________________ How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? In this groundbreaking book, leading academics, curators, bibliographers, and representatives of international organizations from every continent explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express. Anyone who faces this challenge, whether in developing a course at university or school, writing a textbook, installing a museum collection, mounting an exhibition, or otherwise presenting the world's cultural heritage will want to read it.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300097905
• ISBN 13: 9780300097900
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
• Herausgeber: Onians John