Unearthing the Past
Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture
Published on 8. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-300-08911-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a teasing exploration of... epistemological mysteries in the history of art. It describes the elusiveness of imitation as a goal, the creative force of dialogue with uncertainty and the way truth in art grows cheekily out of historical falsehoods." Garry Wills, New York Times "Throughout this remarkable book, Barkan demonstrates an eye that is as refined and penetrating as his writing. It is a book for all art historians, scholars of the Renaissance, and readers generally concerned with history and artistic production." John Hollander, Yale University "In this book the idea of the Renaissance is itself reborn." Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University"More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
206 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
1112 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-08911-0 (9780300089110)
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Person
Leonard Barkan is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Fine Arts at New York University. He is also director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. His carlier book, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (ISBN 0 300 03561 6, 40.00), published by Yale University Press, won the Christian Gauss Award.