History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
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Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
Author: Francis Haskell
Format: Paperback, 568 pages, 195mm x 255mm, 1475 g
Published: 1995, Yale University Press, United States
Genre: History: World & General
Description
Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past