Subjectivity, historical imagination and the language of art history
Analysing the writings of Michael Baxandall, Michael Ann Holly, Adrian Stokes and T. J. Clark, and responding to recent art historiographical interest in the foregrounding of subjectivity, this essay deploys Baxandall’s analysis of the verbal description of visual interest to attend to subjectivity’...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
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| description | Analysing the writings of Michael Baxandall, Michael Ann Holly, Adrian Stokes and T. J. Clark, and responding to recent art historiographical interest in the foregrounding of subjectivity, this essay deploys Baxandall’s analysis of the verbal description of visual interest to attend to subjectivity’s functioning in relationtothe object and its history. Revealing significant continuities between Baxandall and Clark, the essay traces a genealogy of writers who, in different ways, deploy subjectivity in the service of ethical commitments to painting. The essay proposes rethinking subjectivity in art-historical writing through an expanded notion of imagination. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dad0bed75ae54e729d56a74422a4a3bf2022-12-21T22:33:06ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522020-12-012323TH1Subjectivity, historical imagination and the language of art historyThomas Hughes 0Courtauld InstituteAnalysing the writings of Michael Baxandall, Michael Ann Holly, Adrian Stokes and T. J. Clark, and responding to recent art historiographical interest in the foregrounding of subjectivity, this essay deploys Baxandall’s analysis of the verbal description of visual interest to attend to subjectivity’s functioning in relationtothe object and its history. Revealing significant continuities between Baxandall and Clark, the essay traces a genealogy of writers who, in different ways, deploy subjectivity in the service of ethical commitments to painting. The essay proposes rethinking subjectivity in art-historical writing through an expanded notion of imagination.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/hughes.pdfsubjectivitylanguageart historymichael baxandallt. j. clarkearly modern paintingimagination |
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