Past Looking

by Michael Ann Holly

Book Overview

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any interpretation betrays the presence of an interpreter. In Past Looking , she challenges that view, arguing that historical objects of representational art are actively engaged in prefiguring the kinds of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801483026
• ISBN13: 9780801483028
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher