Time in the History of Art: Temporality, Chronology and Anachrony (Studies in Art Historiography)

"Addressed to students of the image--both art historians and students of visual studies--this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the nature of temporal duration in different cultures, the time of materials, the creation of pictorial narrative, and the recognition of anachrony as a form of historical interpretation."-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Introduction: Telling Art’s Time 12 PART I Historical Time 22 1 Is History to Be Closed, Saved, or Restarted? Considering Efficient Art History 24 2 What Time is it in the History of Art? 37 PART II Post-colonial Time 54 3 Time Processes in the History of the Asian Modern 56 4 Colonial Modern: A Clash of Colonial and Indigenous Chronologies: The Case of India 73 5 Artists, Amateurs, and the Pleated Time of Ottoman Modernity 90 6 The Time of Translation: Victor Burgin and Sedad Eldem in Virtual Conversation 112 PART III Artist’s Time 128 7 Arresting What Would Otherwise Slip Away: The Waiting Images of Jacob Vrel 130 8 Twisted Time: Fernando Bryce’s Art of History 144 PART IV Narrative Time 158 9 Heterochronies: The Gospel According to Caravaggio 160 PART V Ontological Time 180 10 The Phenomenal Sublime: Time, Matter, Image in Mesopotamian Antiquity 182 11 Resisting Time: On How Temporality Shaped Medieval Choice of Materials 195 12 Sarah Sze’s The Last Garden and the Temporality of Wonder 216 PART VI Photographic Time 232 13 Showtime and Exposure Time: The Contradictions of Social Photography and the Critical Role of Sensitive Plates for Rethinking the Temporality of Artworks 234 14 “Objects Moving are Not Impressed”: Reading into the Blur 251 Index 260 Contents: "The development of a social exclusion agenda in French cultural policy" / David Looseley; "UK film policy, cultural capital and social exclusion" / John Hill; "Let's hear it for humpty: social exclusion, the third way and cultural capital" / Ruth Levitas; "Leisure inequalities, class divisions and social exclusion in present-day Britain" / Ken Roberts; "Education and cultural capital; the implications of changing trends in education policies" / Diane Reay; "Capitals, ethnic identity and educational qualifications" / Tariq Madood.