{"product_id":"shaping-of-art-history-pb-meditations-on-a-discipline-9780271033068","title":"Shaping of Art History PB: Meditations on a Discipline","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patricia Emison\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers--from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried--have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years' worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the field who question its reliability or even its importance; it is a critique of art history for those in the field who may have been preoccupied with looking at trees but who might be interested in trying to see the forest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891865665687,"sku":"9780271033068","price":3904.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271033068.webp?v=1781185006","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shaping-of-art-history-pb-meditations-on-a-discipline-9780271033068","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}