Vermeer™s Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums (ESSAYS IN ART AND CULTURE) - Softcover

Gaskell, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861890729 ISBN 13: 9781861890726

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2000

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Book by Gaskell Ivan

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Reseña del editor:

"Vermeer's Wager" stands at the intersection of art history and critic ism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practiced, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the unique character of works of art. Our relationship to works of art is mediated, not only through reproduction but also through displays in museums.

Biografía del autor:

Ivan Gaskell is Margaret S. Winthrop Curator at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. He is the co-editor of Vermeer Studies, and his most recent book is Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts (1999).

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• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1861890729
• ISBN 13: 9781861890726
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280