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Title: Art History's History (2nd Edition) by Vernon Hyde Minor ISBN: 0-13-085133-7 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: 14 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.60 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: reductive, but still very useful
Comment: Minor has undertaken the impossible. Any historiography that is limited to 200 pages will undoubtedly be overly reductive. However, this does not entirely discredit Minor's work. While one may take issue with him in a number of places (particularly his chapter on feminism) he provides a generally well-balanced, user-friendly introduction to theories of modern scholarship. Minor is very cognizant of his own fallibility. He recognizes that his sketches of modern methodologies are inadequate. But he provides the necessary background for anyone who wishes to understand the state of contemporary art history.
At the conclusion of this book the reader is left unsatisfied. Yet I think that this may have been Minor's intent (I realize I am being a terrible deconstructionist). His aim, rather, seems to be to ignite an interest in students of art history, that they might, of their own volition, continue their study of art historical methodologies. If this is indeed Minor's aim, he succeeds.
Rating: 1
Summary: Art History's Misery
Comment: A plodding piece of literature in which the reader must wade through endless self-gratifying sentences in order to reach any material of artistic substance or value
Rating: 4
Summary: Art History's History
Comment: This is a great little summary of the discipline of Art History. It's a concise & well-written overview of the place of Art in Western History and Academica, from Ancient Greece to 20th Century America. You'll find it to be an easy but very informative read. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Western Art, Philosophy, and/or History.
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Title: The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art) by Donald Preziosi ISBN: 0192842420 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Art and Its Histories: A Reader by Steve Edwards ISBN: 0300077440 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction by Laurie S. Adams ISBN: 0064302318 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University by Charles W. Haxthausen ISBN: 0300097751 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Writings on the Visual Arts (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, N) by W. Eugene Kleinbauer ISBN: 0802067085 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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