The Fragment: An Incomplete History

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William Tronzo
Getty Publications, 2009 - Art - 222 pages
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Almost everything we know about the past comes from physical and narrative fragments. Yet a fragment is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing. It is itself something in motion over time, manifesting successively or variously as object, evidence, concept, and condition.

The pieces gathered in this volume--written by scholars of art, art history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, numismatics, and film--investigate the significance of the fragment, whether received or created. Each essay offers a meditation on a distinctive moment in the history of the fragment, ranging from spolia in late antique architecture to the practice of collage in the modern period. Complementing these texts is a visual essay by the English sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker, whose oeuvre contemplates not only the power of relics but also the meaning conveyed by found objects made into art.

 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
FIRST CHAPTER
8
INDEX
216
BACK COVER
225

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About the author (2009)


William Tronzo has held research appointments at the American Academy in Rome, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Stanford Humanities Center. The contributors are Ian Balfour, Brigitte Bourgeois, John Chapman, Thomas Crow, Bisserka
Gaydarska, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Paolo Liverani, Glenn Most, Cornelia Parker, Lucia Travaini, William Tronzo, and Fernando Vidal.

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TitleThe Fragment: An Incomplete History
Issues & debates, ISSN 2154-431X
The Fragment: An Incomplete History, Getty Research Institute
EditorWilliam Tronzo
ContributorGetty Research Institute
Editionillustrated
PublisherGetty Publications, 2009
ISBN0892369264, 9780892369263
Length222 pages
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Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / History / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
  
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