Free Download Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600"
English | ISBN: 0271095695 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 296 MB
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of "New World" artifacts and materials through the lenses of "curiosity" and "exoticism," Russo asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the way we currently think about―and theorize―the arts?