Art History and Emergency assesses art historys role and responsibilities in what has been described as the humanities crisisthe 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?
Distributed for the Clark Art Institute
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The Perpetual State of Emergency: Who Benefits? |
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Quixotic Projects: Humanities Research and Public Funding in the United Kingdom |
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The Language of Art: A Saving Power? |
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After Scully: Emergency in the Age of Visual Democracy |
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Old Divisions and the New Art History |
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Art-Historical Alterity in the Post-Colony |
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A Brief Conversation on Artist-Led Administration |
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| Contributors |
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David Breslin is John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, the Menil Drawing Institute. Darby English is Carl Darling Buck Professor in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, and consulting curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art.
