Compression vs. expression : containing and explaining the world's art / edited by John Onians.
How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? These essays explore the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the worlds art. All those who work with art, whether as cur...
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Williamstown, Mass. :
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- The museum dilemma : conservation vs. interpretation / Edmund P. Pillsbury
- Displaced objects on display / Yves Le Fur
- Objects and exhibits - mutating identities : the case of India / Jyotindra Jain
- Around the fourth world in seventy days : art history and the colonized other / Cecelia F. Klein
- Shaking off the shackles : from apartheid to African renaissance in the history of art syllabi / Anitra Nettleton
- Per non lasciar queste carte vote / Michael Rinehart
- Museum publications : history, bibliography, iconography / Dominic Marner
- Legal conventions and the construction of heritage / Derek Gillman
- World heritage, art, and economics : the world heritage convention in the light of economic theory / Georges S. Zouain
- Cultural perspectives in a multicultural world : the World Bank invests in historic urban enclaves / Arlene K. Fleming
- Eternal Mexico : between nationalism and globalization / Rita Eder
- Anxiety and expedience : Chinese art history seen in the context of world art / Cao Yiqiang
- World aesthetics : biology, culture, and reflection / Wilfried van Damme
- Writing about modernist painting outside Western Europe and North America / James Elkins
- World art history and the rise of western modernism, or, goodbye to the visual arts / David Summers
- A brief natural history of art / John Onians.