| Description |
xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Clark studies in the visual arts |
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Clark studies in the visual arts.
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| Contents |
Entanglements. Weightless history: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt / Alexander Nemerov -- A novelist among artists: Gordon Burn and 'Young British Art' / Thomas Crow -- Philip Marlowe meets the art historian / Paul Barolsky -- The case of the errant art historian / Gloria Kury -- Not who you think I am. Face to face with fiction: portraiture and the biographical tradition / Caroline Vout -- 'I am not who you think I am': attributing the humanist portrait, identifying the art historical subject / Maria H. Loh -- Fictional deceptions: a true story / Joanna Scott -- The art-historical photograph as fiction: the pretense of objectivity / Ralph Lieberman -- Artists, stories, objects. 'The reality bodily before us': picturing the Arabian Nights / Marina Warner -- The ekphrastic O / Cole Swensen -- Anecdotes of the life of art history / Mark Ledbury -- The text is present / Marianna Torgovnick |
| Summary |
Fictions of Art History addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians' viewing practices and modes of writing. Mark Ledbury is based at the University of Sydney |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"A related conference, also titled 'Fictions of Art History, ' was held 29-30 October 2010 at the Clark." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Technical/Vocational/TAFE, Tertiary/Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Art in literature -- Congresses.
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Art -- Historiography -- Congresses.
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Fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Ledbury, Mark (Andrew Mark), editor
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Fictions of Art History (Conference) (2010 : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), contributor
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| LC no. |
2012051140 |
| ISBN |
0300191928 (paperback) |
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9780300191929 (paperback) |
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