Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art

This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference under the same title, held from 6 to 8 April 2000 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

'How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? Based on the 2000 Clark Conference [of the same title], Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art explores the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the world's art. All those who work with art---whether as curators, teachers, librarians, bibliographers, administrators, or writers---face this challenge as they work with art of more than one individual, place, period, or culture. Sixteen distinguished scholars from nine countries explore the conflict and address the many questions that emerge.' - from publisher's website.

Alternative title

Clark Studies in the Visual Arts

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, United States)

editor

John ONIANS

Location code

REF.CLS2

Language

English

Keywords

conference, globalisation, art history

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

255

ISBN / ISSN

9780300097900

No of copies

Content type

conference proceedings

Chapter headings

Introduction - John ONIANS

Part One: Art and Its Containing Institutions

The Museum Dilemma: Conservation vs. Interpretation - Edmund P. PILLSBURY

Displaced Objects on Display - Yves LE FUR

Objects and Exhibits - Mutating Identities: The Case of India - Jyotindra JAIN

Around the World in Seventy Days: Art History and the Colonized Other - Cecelia F. KLEIN

Shaking Off the Shackles: From Apartheid to African Renaissance in the History of Art Syllabi - Anitra NETTLETON

Part Two: Global and Regional Perspectives

Per non lasciar queste carte vote - Michael RINEHART

Museum Publications: History, Bibliography, Iconography - Dominic MARNER

Legal Conventions and the Construction of Heritage - Derek GILLMAN

World Heritage, Art, and Economics: The World Heritage Convention in the Light of Economic Theory - George S. ZOUAIN

Cultural Perspectives in a Multicultural World: The World Bank Invests in Historic Urban Enclaves - Arlene K. FLEMING

Eternal Mexico: Between Nationalism and Globalization - Rita EDER

Anxiety and Expedience: Chinese Art History Seen in the Context of World Art - CAO Yiqiang, 曹意強

Part Three: The Ultimate Compression

World Aesthetics: Biology, Culture, and Reflection - Wilfried VAN DAMME

Writing about Modernist Painting Outside Western Europe and North America - James ELKINS

World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism, or, Goodbye to the Visual Arts - David SUMMERS

A Brief Natural History of Art - John ONIANS

Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art

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