Another History of Art
Koenraad Jonckheere
Hannibal, 2022
€65,00
New reference work offers a different view of art history
Art is so much more than an aesthetic experience or an intriguing concept. It is also an instrument of politics and religion, a catalyst of revolutions, a trigger of extreme reactions, a laboratory for new technologies. Art is the blueprint of an era, the bearer of intangible meaning. Art represents fabulous amounts but also a sea of emotion.
How has art evolved in 2,500 years from the pursuit of the representation of the ideal human being to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a can of Merda d’artista on the art market worth more than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape?
This book outlines the story of the visual arts in Western Europe from antiquity to modernism in five chapters, each time from a different angle. Contrary to usual, the emphasis is not so much on a succession of striking figures who have set the course of Western art, but on a complex interplay of human ingenuity and imagination and of rapidly changing historical circumstances. IN DUTCH!
Koenraad Jonckheere is professor of art history at Ghent University.
ISBN: 9789464366303
