The Practice of Art History: Reflections on Method

Pacht, Otto

ISBN 10: 1872501311 / ISBN 13: 9781872501314

Published by Harvey Miller Publishers, 1999

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs7654998019

Synopsis:

This is the English version of Otto Pacht's classic text on art history. His approach to art history is shaped by his conviction that visual art, like music, can express ideas in its own medium that no other can. He aims to sharpen the reader's perceptions by recreating the social and cultural context in which an object was made, clarifying unfamiliar notions of space and time or significant gestures and symbols which are no longer recognizable. Pacht explores the major thinkers from Riegl, Wolfflin and Croce to Panofsky and Gombrich, but the emphasis always returns to the activity of looking, and Pacht manages to show the student and general reader alike how to practice art history in their own encounters with works of art.

About the Author: Antoine Picon is professor of the history of architecture and engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, and author of French Architects and Engineers in the Age of the Enlightenment. David Britt has translated numerous books, including The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity by Aby
Warburg.

Christopher S. Wood is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Yale University. He is the author of "Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, " and the editor of "The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s" (Zone Books, 2000).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Practice of Art History: Reflections on ...
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good