Discussion of ‘Style’ from Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes, Style and Classification in the History of Art, Ithaca, Cornell University Press: Cornell East Asia Series 2008

This essay is the concluding chapter of a study of the work of Max Loehr (1903-1988), an art historian whose visual analysis of unprovenanced Chinese bronzes famously anticipated the discoveries of archaeologists. It argues that Loehr’s strictly pragmatic understanding of style is implicit in the da...

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Main Author: Robert Bagley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2010-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_152493_en.pdf