| Series |
Clark studies in the visual arts
Clark studies in the visual arts. ^A561656
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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?"--Jacket. |
| General note | "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." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Exhibition catalogues. |
| LCCN | 2015045975 |
| ISBN | 9781935998259 (publisher ; sterling and francine clark art institute) |
| ISBN | 1935998250 (publisher ; sterling and francine clark art institute) |
| ISBN | 9780300218756 (distributor ; yale university press) |
| ISBN | 0300218753 (distributor ; yale university press) |
