TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elkins,James
AU  - Williams,Robert
TI  - Renaissance theory
T2  - Art seminar
SN  - 0415960452
AV  - N6370 .R39 2008
U1  - 709.024 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Art, Renaissance
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Renaissance theory : a selective introduction / Rebecca Zorach -- Introduction to an abandoned book / James Elkins -- Vasari's renaissance and its renaissance alternatives / Stephen J. Campbell -- The concept of the renaissance today : what is at stake? / Claire Farago -- Rethinking the divide : cult images and the cult of images / Fredrika Jacobs -- Gothic as renaissance : ornament, excess, and identity, circa 1500 / Ethan Matt Kavaler -- Italian renaissance art and the systematicity of representation / Robert Williams -- The art seminar. Participants: Stephen J. Campbell, Michael Cole, James Elkins, Claire Farago, Fredrika Jacobs, Ethan Matt Kavaler, Robert WIlliams -- Assessments. Jan von Bonsdorff ; Una Roman D'Elia ; Lisa Pon ; Charlotte M. Houghton ; Lubomír Konečný ; Ingrid Ciulisová ; Frédéric Elsig ; Jeanette Favrot Peterson ; Thomas Puttfarken ; Patricia Emison ; Joanna Woods-Marsden ; Maria Ruvoldt ; Marzia Faietti ; Caroline van Eck ; Robert Zwinjnenberg ; Elizabeth Alice Honig ; Alice Jarrard ; Pamela H. Smith ; Adrian W.B. Randolph -- Renaissance theory? / Alessandro Nova -- Hugging the shore / James Elkins and Robert Williams
N2  - "Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most; prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Frank Fehrenbach, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler."--Publisher description
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