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Compression vs. expression : containing and explaining the world's art / edited by John Onians.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Clark studies in the visual artsPublisher: Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, [2006]Distributor: New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press Copyright date: ©2006Description: xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300097905
  • 0931102677
  • 9780300097900
  • 9780931102677
Other title:
  • Compression versus expression
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.1 22
LOC classification:
  • N7480 .C63 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The museum dilemma : conservation vs. interpretation / Edmund P. Pillsbury -- Displaced objects on display / Yves Le Fur -- Objects and exhibits - mutating identities : the case of India / Jyotindra Jain -- Around the fourth world in seventy days : art history and the colonized other / Cecelia F. Klein -- Shaking off the shackles : from apartheid to African renaissance in the history of art syllabi / Anitra Nettleton -- Per non lasciar queste carte vote / Michael Rinehart -- Museum publications : history, bibliography, iconography / Dominic Marner -- Legal conventions and the construction of heritage / Derek Gillman -- World heritage, art, and economics : the world heritage convention in the light of economic theory / Georges S. Zouain -- Cultural perspectives in a multicultural world : the World Bank invests in historic urban enclaves / Arlene K. Fleming -- Eternal Mexico : between nationalism and globalization / Rita Eder -- Anxiety and expedience : Chinese art history seen in the context of world art / Cao Yiqiang -- World aesthetics : biology, culture, and reflection / Wilfried van Damme -- Writing about modernist painting outside Western Europe and North America / James Elkins -- World art history and the rise of western modernism, or, goodbye to the visual arts / David Summers -- A brief natural history of art / John Onians.
Summary: How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? These essays explore the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the worlds art. All those who work with art, whether as curators, teachers, librarians, bibliographers, administrators, or writers, face this challenge as they work with art of more than one individual, place, persiod, or culture. Sixteen scholars from nine different countries explore the conflict and address the many questions that emerge--From publisher description.
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Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "Compression vs. Expression : Containing and Explaining the World's Art," held 6-8 April 2000 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references.

The museum dilemma : conservation vs. interpretation / Edmund P. Pillsbury -- Displaced objects on display / Yves Le Fur -- Objects and exhibits - mutating identities : the case of India / Jyotindra Jain -- Around the fourth world in seventy days : art history and the colonized other / Cecelia F. Klein -- Shaking off the shackles : from apartheid to African renaissance in the history of art syllabi / Anitra Nettleton -- Per non lasciar queste carte vote / Michael Rinehart -- Museum publications : history, bibliography, iconography / Dominic Marner -- Legal conventions and the construction of heritage / Derek Gillman -- World heritage, art, and economics : the world heritage convention in the light of economic theory / Georges S. Zouain -- Cultural perspectives in a multicultural world : the World Bank invests in historic urban enclaves / Arlene K. Fleming -- Eternal Mexico : between nationalism and globalization / Rita Eder -- Anxiety and expedience : Chinese art history seen in the context of world art / Cao Yiqiang -- World aesthetics : biology, culture, and reflection / Wilfried van Damme -- Writing about modernist painting outside Western Europe and North America / James Elkins -- World art history and the rise of western modernism, or, goodbye to the visual arts / David Summers -- A brief natural history of art / John Onians.

How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? These essays explore the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the worlds art. All those who work with art, whether as curators, teachers, librarians, bibliographers, administrators, or writers, face this challenge as they work with art of more than one individual, place, persiod, or culture. Sixteen scholars from nine different countries explore the conflict and address the many questions that emerge--From publisher description.

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