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Discipline problem: Jonathan Gilmore on Hans Belting.(Art History after Modernism)(Book Review)
Artforum International, October, 2003 by Gilmore, Jonathan
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Art History After Modernism, by Hans Belting, translated by Caroline Saltzwedel and Mitch Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 248 pages. $65.
IN HIS 1990 LIKENESS AND PRESENCE, Hans Belting offered a magisterial narrative of the social, political, and religious contexts of imagemaking in late antiquity and the Middle Ages while adamantly refusing to view the creations of that time through the conceptual lenses of artistic autonomy, individual expression, and historical progress that developed only later. Not so much an early history as a prehistory of art (as implied in ...
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