'A lure is something that tempts or attracts with the offer of pleasure or reward, a promise sometimes false, sometimes kept, and sometimes broken. Based on the 2004 Clark Conference, The Lure of the Object examines the way in which art history finds, loses, or gives itself away in the face of its objects. In a series of thought-provoking essays, fourteen distinguished curators, conservators, and scholars from different disciplines in the humanities consider how artists, the public, and art historians encounter objects. How are art and art history shaped by the confrontation with the object painted, drawn, and sculpted,; lost, found, and ready-made; exhibited and conserved; made and unmade?' (Excerpt from the back cover)
Alternative title
Clark Studies in the Visual Arts
Access level
Onsite
Location code
REF.CLS2
Language
English
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
2005
ISBN / ISSN
9780300103
No of copies
1
Content type
conference proceedings,
monograph
The Lure of The Object
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