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Brain of the Earth´s Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity
Donald Preziosi
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Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, 39 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: AC; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
What begins as a meditation on the museum by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Donald Preziosi presents case ... Read more
What begins as a meditation on the museum by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Donald Preziosi presents case ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816633586
SKU
V9780816633586
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