Visual Time: The Image in History

Title: Visual Time: The Image in HistoryAuthor: Moxey, KeithPublisher: Duke University PressBinding: PaperbackPages: 224Dimensions: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60dProduct Weight: 0.9 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9780822353690Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in the discipline. To what extent are their artistic narratives commensurate with those told about Western art? Does time run at the same speed in all places? Keith Moxey argues that the discipline of art history has been too attached to interpreting works of art based on a teleological categorization-demonstrating how each work influences the next as part of a linear sequence-which he sees as tied to Western notions of modernity. In contrast, he emphasizes how the experience of viewing art creates its own aesthetic time, where the viewer is entranced by the work itself rather than what it represents about the historical mome