{"product_id":"a-history-of-art-history-9780691156521","title":"A History of Art History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however--Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich--struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher S. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at New York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eForgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlbrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAnachronic Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491909603602,"sku":"9780691156521","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2ad4747-ee9c-45a6-af4f-a3afbdd22002.jpg?v=1730561364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-art-history-9780691156521","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}