{"product_id":"about-michael-baxandall-by-adrian-rifkin-9780631211914","title":"About Michael Baxandall","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA distinguished group of art historians reflect on the work of Michael Baxandall, in terms of its importance for their own formation, its location in the development of a new art history, and its influence on the broader languages and theories of contemporary cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume deploys the meaning of the word 'about' both as an adverb and a preposition to weave a tissue of readings through and around the writing of Baxandall in such a way as both to characterise its importance in recent thinking on art and cultural history and to displace it from a conventional understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking critically, analytically and through analogy, the essays not only rethink Baxandall through a cultural theory in which he takes an unexpected position alongside Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, but position his ideas in the conceptual fields of a Marcel Duchamp or a Donald Judd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlternatively, they historicise his thinking in a context of modern ethnographic, sociological and feminist methodologies, or one of important considerations on such concepts as material culture or artistic production as figures in the writing of art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462570131692,"sku":"9780631211914","price":53.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780631211914-about-michael-baxandall.jpg?v=1775015944","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/about-michael-baxandall-by-adrian-rifkin-9780631211914","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}