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Brain of the Earth's Body

Paperback • 2003 • English

Brain of the Earth's Body

By Donald Preziosi

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About the book

What begins as a meditation on "the museum" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the...Show more

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ISBN

9780816633586

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Brain of the Earth's Body

Format

Paperback

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