Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art

Onians, John (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0300097905 / ISBN 13: 9780300097900

Published by Clark Art Institute, USA & England, 2006

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Title: Compression vs. Expression: Containing and ...

Publisher: Clark Art Institute, USA & England

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

With essays by Cao Yiqiang, Rita Eder, James Elkins, Arlene K. Fleming, Derek Gillman, Jyotindra Jain, Cecelia F. Klein, Yves Le Fur, Dominic Marner, Anitra Nettleton, John Onians, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Michael Rinehart, David Summers, Wilfried van Damme, and Georges S. Zouain
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How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? In this groundbreaking book, leading academics, curators, bibliographers, and representatives of international organizations from every continent explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express. Anyone who faces this challenge, whether in developing a course at university or school, writing a textbook, installing a museum collection, mounting an exhibition, or otherwise presenting the world’s cultural heritage will want to read it.

Book Description:

How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a regional tradition but as a worldwide phenomenon? In this groundbreaking book, leading academics, curators, bibliographers, and representatives of international organizations explain the ways they deal with the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express.