The Shaping of Art History Helen Larder Aren Wilson-Wright

Aren Wilson-Wright

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The Shaping of Art History Helen Larder Aren Wilson-WrightIn this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkersfrom Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Friedhave conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the