Past Looking

Michael Ann Holly

Published by Cornell University Press 1996

Past Looking

Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image

Michael Ann Holly

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501725692

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Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any...

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HollyMichael Ann:

Michael Ann Holly is Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute and teaches in the graduate program at Williams College. Her other books include Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations; The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective; Art History, Aesthetics, and Visual Studies; and Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History, the latter also available from Cornell.

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"A strangely moving book to read.... Surely our desire to experience a kind of privileged timelessness before images—or our satisfaction with signification of any kind—has something to do with the consciousness of our own historicity; surely the challenge of art history, the challenge posed by the deep fascination of old art—or those faces from the past, so similar to our own, yet not our own—is like an encounter with the uncanny, with that otherness in which we discern our own end. A critical art history—like philosophy, like psychoanalysis—ought to take implications of that encounter seriously."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Telling a Picture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Picturing Cultural History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Looking into the Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
4. Imagining the Baroque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Writing Leonardo Backwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
6. Witnessing an Annunciation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
7. Reading Critical Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 60 halftones
Keywords: Art History; History; Cultural Studies

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Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501725692