![]() ![]() The pioneer of this was Johann Joachim Winckelmann in his History of the Art of Antiquity (1764). As the history of art was emerging discipline Art came to be seen as the embodiment of a distinctive expression of particular societies and civilisations. In reality it is three books in one.īaxandall brings together many strands of previous art historical methodology and moves them forward in Painting and Experience. ![]() It may have been published as a book with three chapters. Since publication it has been described in such favourable terms as being ‘intelligent, persuasive, interesting, and lucidly argued’ to ‘concise and tightly written, and being found to ‘present new and important material’. ![]() Although relatively short it has subsequently been published in numerous languages, most recently Chinese, with a second edition published in 1988. Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style was first published in 1972. ![]()
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