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|   |   | Is Art History?Selected WritingsBy Svetlana Alpers. Introduction by Richard Meyer. Interview by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler.
Spanning six decades, this critical compilation gathers Svetlana Alpers’ award-winning writings on art historyA definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, Is Art History? brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six decades: beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of the art historical discipline, including a foundational essay on Vasari (1960), “Is Art History?” (1970), “Style Is What You Make It” (1979) and “Art History and Its Exclusions” (1982); two never before published lectures and other unpublished public presentations; notable critical essays on art and recent texts on contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy and Shirley Jaffe. Is Art History? also includes new prefatory notes written by the author for this occasion, an unexpected introduction by her former student, the esteemed scholar-critic Richard Meyer, and an interview with the German author and critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. This extensive view of Alpers’ prolific and varied career appeals both to new readers in need of an introduction and to audiences familiar with her essential writing on the great European tradition of painting. Svetlana Alpers (born 1936) is the author of The Art of Describing and Rembrandt’s Enterprise, among other titles. Alpers taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1962 to 1994 and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Art and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Alpers cofounded the interdisciplinary journal Representations in 1983.
PRAISE AND REVIEWSWilliam Kentridge Svetlana Alpers is an artist's art historian. Her wonderful writing goes from the canvas or the line, outwards. Starting with the making and expanding on to the meaning that accrues through the making. Marlene Dumas At a time when writing about art is done with the same irresponsible ease and rhetoric as defending unjust wars, Svetlana Alpers is a must to read if you care about history and about art. Former director, National Gallery, London Charles Saumarez Smith Svetlana Alpers is an extraordinarily important art historian best known for her publications on Dutch painting, including 'The Art of Describing' (1983), and her contribution to the 'New Art History' as founding co-editor of the scholarly journal 'Representations.' What is much less well known is the extent to which she has gone on writing and thinking about the nature of art, the act of looking and museums, and about contemporary art and photography since she moved from Berkeley, California to New York in 1999. 'Is Art History?' assembles examples of her writing, including reviews and memoirs, from her full career, starting with Vasari in 1960. Every piece is thoughtful, original and frequently unexpected. President & CEO, Dedalus Foundation Jack Flam This book quite literally opens our eyes to the wide range of art and artists discussed in it, and does so with an unflinching probity that provides deep insights into the ways in which art is intrinsically related to the human condition. Svetlana Alpers’s writing is pithy and incisive, impressively erudite but never pedantic, as she illuminates both individual works and broad art historical concepts with a unique combination of energy, passion, and clarity. Hans Ulrich Obrist Svetlana Alpers's groundbreaking 'Is Art History?' shows that art can shape historical understanding through its visual and material processes. Alpers's book provides a unique prospective and shows that the future is sometimes invented with fragments from the past. UCLA Department of Art History George Baker This is a book of classic essays (this is a book of ceaseless questions) by one of the great art historians of our time. Beware: At the start, the collection offers up a quixotic self-categorization of its contents: articles, catalogue essays, book and exhibition reviews, lectures, commemorations, conversations. But over the course of a lifetime of writing, the author of 'The Art of Describing' betrays a restless intelligence that refuses to be categorized. Alpers insists that we treat the work of art, every work of art, in the same way: beyond received ideas, each according to its specific ‘mode.’It is her great lesson. Art in America Barry Schwabsky ... [Svetlana Alper's] words offer pleasure and instruction to anyone who cares about art, and above all, [make] them wonder whether their ideas about it can be usefully examined. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/26/2024Thursday, September 26, at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore and Hunters Point Press present art historian Sveltana Alpers in conversation with Guggenheim CEO and Director Mariët Westermann, in celebration of Alpers' definitive new volume of selected writings, Is Art History? Reserve your seat here! continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/26/2024We are delighted to announce Hunters Point Press' new release Is Art History?—perhaps the best-titled critical reader of this season (or any season)—by noted American art historian Svetlana Alpers. Collecting six decades of Alpers’ probing and sometimes excitingly confrontational writings, including foundational essays, recent work and previously unpublished lectures, this whopping 420-page clothbound text (complete with ribbon bookmark) is beautifully printed on creamy matte paper with a generous illustrations section at back that is itself printed on an appropriately bright, coated stock better suited to the act of looking. Spanning from 1426 to the 2000s, this is a book of remarkable confidence and vision. “Her voice as a writer is so distinct and direct, one would not want it diluted by anyone else,” Richard Meyer writes in his Introduction. “Nor would it behoove any editor to try to correct her. Recall: ‘If I am wrong, let the reader see I am wrong.’ … When I read an essay or review by Alpers, it is as though she is speaking aloud—and to me. To read one of her texts ‘is to feel that it is being done for you, or right before your eyes, as the phrase has it.’” continue to blog | FORTHCOMING AND NEW: CRITICISM AND THEORY | | Mousse PublishingISBN: 9788867493425 USD $37.00 | CAD $55Pub Date: 2/19/2019 Active | Out of stock
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