Description
Book Synopsis* A collection of essays reflecting on the influence of Stephen Bann on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history. * Written by a distinguished group of eminent scholars. * Engages with a wide range of subjects from French art and architecture to histories of the garden and painting in China.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: About Stephen Bann: Deborah Cherry.
Let There Be Irony: Cultural History And Media Archaeology In Parallel Lines: Wolfgang Ernst.
Unfurled: Michael Fried.
Re-Reading Inscriptions In Chinese Scroll Painting: The Eleventh To The Fourteenth Centuries: Zhang Hongxing.
The Imaginative Dimension Of An Early Eighteenth-Century Garden: Wentworth Castle: Michael Charlesworth.
Poem Prints.
Faith In Materials: Christ Giving The Keys To Saint Peter By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Susan L. Siegfried.
Giving Up On History? Challenges To The Hierarchy Of The Genres In Early Nineteenth-Century France: Paul Duro.
Henri Labrouste And The Lure Of The Real: Romanticism, Rationalism And The Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve: Martin Bressani And Marc Grignon.
Something Is Happening: Richard Shiff.
Le Voyageur: The Perfect Traveller: Jean Louis Schefer.
Stephen Bann Bibliography.
Index.
