Comparativism in Art History (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison, by Stanley K. Abe and Ja? Elsner Chapter 1: Our Literal Speed, by Our Literal Speed Chapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations, by Wu Hung Chapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative, by Whitney Davis Chapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation, by Margaret Olin Chapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context, by Ittai Weinryb Chapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History, by Stanley K. Abe Chapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin, by Avinoam Shalem Chapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison ? An Illusive Dream?, by Susanne Kuchler Chapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison, by Richard Neer Chapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction, by Robert Slifkin Chapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art, by Jeremy Tanner