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The Art of Describing
Svetlana Alpers
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Description for The Art of Describing
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, colour plates, 182 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACN; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 768.
"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art ... Read more
"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
Weight
739g
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226015132
SKU
V9780226015132
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99-32
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