The End of Art History?

Author: Hans Belting
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: A Translation Series of Western Academic Thought in the 20th Century. Art historians need to re-examine the models for telling the history of art. Art history is not a linear process of development but rather a continuous process of raising new questions and finding new methods to solve them. One of the new questions these methods aim to address is what constitutes an "image" and what makes it a convincing visual "reality" in a specific period. This book compiles essays by 20 renowned contemporary art historians from Europe and America, reflecting on the history and current state of the discipline of art history, as well as their perspectives on the future prospects of the field.