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Informationen zum Autor Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA. Klappentext Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The essays assess the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of the comparative in how art history may develop in the future. Zusammenfassung Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The essays assess the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of the comparative in how art history may develop in the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison , by Stanley K. Abe and Jas Elsner Chapter 1: Our Literal Speed , by Our Literal Speed Chapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations , by Wu Hung Chapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative , by Whitney Davis Chapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation , by Margaret Olin Chapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context , by Ittai Weinryb Chapter 6 : Sculpture: A Comparative History , by Stanley K. Abe Chapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin , by Avinoam Shalem Chapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison – An Illusive Dream? , by Susanne Küchler Chapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison , by Richard Neer Chapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction , by Robert Slifkin Chapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art , by Jeremy Tanner ...
