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Art history and emergency : crises in the visual arts and humanities / Edited by David Breslin and Darby English.

Contributor(s): Series: Clark studies in the visual artsPublisher: Williamstown, Massachusetts : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2016Description: x, 147 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300218756
Subject(s):
Contents:
The perpetual state of emergency : who benefits? / Thomas Crow
Whose emergency? / Kajri Jain
Greater depressions / Molly Nesbit
Quixotic projects : humanities research and public funding in the United Kingdom / Caroline Arscott
The language of art : a saving power? / Anatoli Mikhailov
After Scully : emergency in the age of visual democracy / Mary Miller
Old divisions and the new art history / Howard Singerman
Art-historical alterity in the post-colony / Patrick D. Flores
The value of art / Manuel J. Borja-Villel
Emergencia / Our Literal Speed
A brief conversation on artist-led administration / Theaster Gates
Summary: Art History and Emergency assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis"--The perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has "crisis" played in the humanities' history? How are artists, art historians, and professionals in related disciplines responding to current pressures to prove their worth? How does one defend the practical value of knowing how to think deeply about objects and images without losing the intellectual intensity that characterizes the best work in the discipline? Does art history as we know it have a future?
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"This publication was conceived by the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A related conference, titled "Art History and Emergency," was held 7-8 November 2014 at the Clark."

Includes bibliographical references.

The perpetual state of emergency : who benefits? / Thomas Crow

Whose emergency? / Kajri Jain

Greater depressions / Molly Nesbit

Quixotic projects : humanities research and public funding in the United Kingdom / Caroline Arscott

The language of art : a saving power? / Anatoli Mikhailov

After Scully : emergency in the age of visual democracy / Mary Miller

Old divisions and the new art history / Howard Singerman

Art-historical alterity in the post-colony / Patrick D. Flores

The value of art / Manuel J. Borja-Villel

Emergencia / Our Literal Speed

A brief conversation on artist-led administration / Theaster Gates

Art History and Emergency assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis"--The perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has "crisis" played in the humanities' history? How are artists, art historians, and professionals in related disciplines responding to current pressures to prove their worth? How does one defend the practical value of knowing how to think deeply about objects and images without losing the intellectual intensity that characterizes the best work in the discipline? Does art history as we know it have a future?