| Description |
xvii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Dialogue with a Saturnian -- 2. The Sameness of Theory -- 3. On the Impossibility of Close Reading -- 4. Saying Who We Are -- 5. Saying What We Are Doing -- 6. Unease and Disease -- 7. The History and Theory of Meandering -- 8. The Brancacci Chapel and Spider Webs -- 9. The Avaricious Snap of Rhetoric -- 10. Writing as Reverie -- 11. On Half-Consciousness |
| Summary |
Examines art historical writing as an expressive medium, capable of emotion and reflection-and therefore deserving of serious consideration for its own sake, as the testament of art history and of individual historians |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art -- Historiography.
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| LC no. |
00002158 |
| ISBN |
0415926637 paperback |
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