Art without an Author
Marco Ruffini
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Description for Art without an Author
Hardback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 276 pages, 46 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Why is the history of art so often construed as a history of artists, when its alleged focus is art? This book responds to this question by examining Giorgio Vasari’s Lives and the artist it features most centrally, Michelangelo.
Printed in Florence in 1550 and republished in a substantially enlarged form in 1568, the Lives is a compendium of biographies of the most noteworthy artists, from the late Middle Ages to Vasari’s time. Perhaps no other text has exerted such a formidable influence on the discipline of art history, shaping its historical and conceptual categories—principally as an effect ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Modern Language Initiative
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823234554
SKU
V9780823234554
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About Marco Ruffini
Marco Ruffini is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Art History at Northwestern University.
Reviews for Art without an Author
"A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social."
-Leonard Barkan Princeton University "Art Without an Author presents a revisionist view of the Lives, but one grounded firmly in contemporary artistic, literary, and social culture... It ... Read more
-Leonard Barkan Princeton University "Art Without an Author presents a revisionist view of the Lives, but one grounded firmly in contemporary artistic, literary, and social culture... It ... Read more