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The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from winckelmann, kant, and hegel to foucault, carol duncan, and mary. Donald preziosi, professor of art history, received his phd from harvard and before joining the ucla faculty taught art and architectural history and contemporary critical theory at suny, mit, and yale. Books by donald preziosi author of the art of art history. Rethinking art history meditations on a coy science donald preziosi download bok. If art history is the becomingvisible of arts historicity, art history is then intimately concerned with the fabrication and maintenance of modernityit is what art history is for and what in. Brain of the earths body university of minnesota press. The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Donald preziosi is a member of the history faculty at oxford university and emeritus professor of art history and critical theory at ucla. Professor preziosi is a leading expert in art historys history and is respected widely for his erudition and comprehensive knowledge of the field. Apr 15, 2009 author of a dozen books on art, architecture, museology, and critical and cultural theory, donald preziosi received his doctorate in art history from harvard and has been a professor of art history at yale, mit, ucla, and oxford, where he was the slade professor of fine art in 20002001. Professor preziosi is a leading expert in art history s history and is respected widely for his erudition and comprehensive knowledge of the field.
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Here is a new edition of donald preziosis masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. Louise hitchcock is a research associate of the institute of archaeology at ucla. Interview with donald preziosi journal of art historiography. Titles in the oxford history of art series are uptodate, fully illustrated introductions. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from winckelmann, kant, and hegel to foucault, carol duncan, and mary kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography.
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