Dana Arnold
Autor de Art History: A Very Short Introduction
Sobre El Autor
Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Middlesex University, London. Her other writings on London include Rural Urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenth century (2006) and Representing the Metropolis: Architecture, urban experience and social life in London mostrar más 1800-1840 (2000) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: www.southampton.ac.uk/history/profiles/arnold.html
Obras de Dana Arnold
A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present (Blackwell Companions to Art History) (2013) 8 copias
Belov'd by ev'ry muse: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington & 4th Earl of Cork (1694-1753) (1994) 3 copias
Re-presenting the metropolis : architecture, urban experience and social life in London 1800-1840 (2000) 2 copias
Introdução à história da arte 1 copia
Sanat Hakkında Kısa Bir Kitap: Bakış - Malzemeler - Zihin - Adanmışlık - İktidar - Cinsellik (Turkish Edition) (2019) 1 copia
Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (Rethinking Art's Histories) (2020) 1 copia
ART HISTORY 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum archaeology, reception, and digital reconstruction (2010) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Arnold, Dana Rebecca
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1961
- Género
- female
- Ocupaciones
- professor
- Organizaciones
- Middlesex University
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 29
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 472
- Popularidad
- #52,190
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 70
- Idiomas
- 5
Specifically, she portrays critical theory as a dumbed down collection of isms (all but feminism created by European white men she constantly reminds us have warped humanity). Aside: Read the VSI on Critical Theory which is excellent if you want a more sophisticated view, although I still remain baffled why so many humanities academics are so enthralled by it.
She then claims this basket of isms, gives us deep and new insights into understanding art history that undermines the ideas of old white men whose paradigms of art fall into one of these baskets:
- classical art as a pinnacle from which everything declined
- history is progress from the primitive to now
- art is a work of genius European white men; women, minorities and non-European can’t create great art
- art isn’t about politics and culture but old white man values like beauty
Besides the terrible over-simplifications, straw man arguments (no straw people here), and misrepresentations of several thinkers ideas, there are also inaccuracies which always drive me nuts (e.g. ancient Babylonians collected artifacts long before the Greeks, iconoclasm only lasted 150 years so of course tons of icons existed 600 years after this controversy was settled). Come on Oxford, why aren’t your editors doing their job and fact checking?
Worst of all, you don’t come away with any coherent view of what art or art history is or should be. Plus it’s all terribly boring to read (yes I know I’ve said that already but…)
Perhaps this book grated on me so much because I recently finished the VSI on architecture, which discusses similar themes and issues in a closely related field. That book was highly interesting, enlightening, well presented, thought provoking and jargon free.… (más)