Art history and emergency.

By:

English, Darby

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Clark studies in the visual artsPublication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Yale Univ Press, 2016.Description: 147p ill. 24cmISBN:

0300218753
9780300218756

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

700.9 ENG

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	700.9 ENG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100624668

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Art History and Emergency assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis"--the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has "crisis" played in the humanities' history? How are artists, art historians, and professionals in related disciplines responding to current pressures to prove their worth? How does one defend the practical value of knowing how to think deeply about objects and images without losing the intellectual intensity that characterizes the best work in the discipline? Does art history as we know it have a future?

Distributed for the Clark Art Institute

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Breslin is John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, the Menil Drawing Institute. Darby English is Carl Darling Buck Professor in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, and consulting curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art.