Fictions of art history : edited by Mark Ledbury
Author(s): Ledbury, Mark
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Fictions of art history
- Author(s)
- Ledbury, Mark
- Publisher
- Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2013
- Collation
- xvi, 206 p. : ill.
25 cm. - Series Title
- Clark studies in the visual arts.
- ISBN
- 9781935998105
- Dewey Class
- 700.72
- Contents
- Entanglements. Weightless history: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt / Alexander Nemerov -- A novelist among artists: Gordon Burn and 'Young British Art' / Thomas Crow -- Philip Marlowe meets the art historian / Paul Barolsky -- The case of the errant art historian / Gloria Kury -- Not who you think I am. Face to face with fiction: portraiture and the biographical tradition / Caroline Vout -- 'I am not who you think I am': attributing the humanist portrait, identifying the art historical subject / Maria H. Loh -- Fictional deceptions: a true story / Joanna Scott -- The art-historical photograph as fiction: the pretense of objectivity / Ralph Lieberman -- Artists, stories, objects. 'The reality bodily before us': picturing the Arabian Nights / Marina Warner -- The ekphrastic O / Cole Swensen -- Anecdotes of the life of art history / Mark Ledbury -- The text is present / Marianna Torgovnick.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art -- Congresses -- Historiography.
Art appreciation. - BRN
- 4342
Notes
- Addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, this volume examines art historians' viewing practices and modes of writing.
- "A related conference, also titled 'Fictions of Art History,' was held 29-30 October 2010 at the Clark."
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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700.72 FIC
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