Books written by Donald Preziosi
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is
Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.
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Aegean Art and Architecture
A general introduction to the art and architecture of Greece, the Cycladic islands and Crete, from c.3300 - 1000 BC. The authors have been highly selective in their choice of sites and objects, providing key examples which illustrate the ...
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Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science
Pausanias describes paintings of Odysseus and Diomedes ( stealing the image of Athena from Troy ) , along with other Homeric subjects . In contrast to the essentially private clubhouse ( lesche ) gallery of the Knidians at Delphi ...
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Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity
This book is a unique re-evaluation of the essential indeterminacy of meaning-making, marking a radically new approach to understanding the inextricability of aesthetics and theology and will be of interest to students and researchers in ...
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In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
A critical commentary by critic, historian, and theorist Johanne Lamoureux complements the author's own introduction, mirroring the multiple interpretations within the essays themselves.
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Brain of the Earth's Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity
What begins as a meditation on "the museum" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art ...
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Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science
Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science
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Minoan Architectural Design: Formation and Signification
... 328, 219, 220, 239, 278, 292, 329, 332, 393, 405, 409 362, 393-395, 396, 397, TROY: Citadel: 175, 180-182, 297 398, 489 ~ Guy Ankerl Experimental Sociology of Architecture A Guide to 522 Index of Sites.
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Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum
Daniel J. Boorstin, 'The Realms of Pride and Awe', in Jay A. Levenson, ed., Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, p. 17. 2.
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The Semiotics of the Built Environment: An Introduction to Architectonic Analysis
The Semiotics of the Built Environment: An Introduction to Architectonic Analysis
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Architecture, Language and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and Its Semiotic Organization
Architecture, Language and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and Its Semiotic Organization
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Architecture, Language, and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and Its Semiotic Organization
Architecture, Language, and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and Its Semiotic Organization
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Architecture, Language, and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and its Semiotic Organization
Architecture, Language, and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and its Semiotic Organization
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries.
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
... North American education. Yet closer study of Pueblo pagan religious formation and practice reveals an objective ... region have chosen to call their home. Apart from the narrow, furrowing valley in the northeast, through which the Rio ...
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In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics
Preziosi's latest collection of essays, including a critical commentary by Lamoureux, suggests multiple interpretations and hidden resonances in each text, opening up alternatives to contemporary discourses on art history and visual culture ...
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艺术史的艺术: A Critical Anthology
本书选取了艺术史研究过程中的9个关键议题,35篇极巨影响力的经典文本,让读者直接进入能代表艺术史研究领域的名家名篇,从诸多文本直接了解这一领域,避免偏听一家之言.
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Brain of the Earth's Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity
... Brain of the Earth's Body makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear . Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the begin- ning of the twentieth , Donald Preziosi ...