Compression vs. expression
Subtitle: containing and explaining the world's art
By: edited by John Onians.
Contributors: Onians, John, 1942-; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Series: Clark studies in the visual arts
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780300097900
Subjects: Art -- Historiography -- Congresses; Art criticism -- Congresses; Art and globalization -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Compression versus expression.
Notes: Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "Compression vs. expression : containing and explaining the world's art," held 6-8 April 2000 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The museum dilemma: conservation vs. interpretation / Edmund P. Pillsbury; title: Displaced objects on display / Yves Le Fur; title: Objects and exhibits, mutating identities: the case of India / Jyotindra Jain; title: Around the fourth world in seventy days: art history and the colonized other / Cecelia F. Klein; title: Shaking off the shackles: from apartheid to African renaissance in the history of Art Syllabi / Anitra Nettleton; title: Per non lasciar queste carte vote / Michael Rinehart; title: Museum publications: history, bibliography, iconography / Dominic Marner; title: Legal conventions and the construction of heritage / Derek Gillman; title: World Heritage, art, and economics: the World Heritage Convention in the light of economic theory / Georges S. Zouain; title: Cultural perspectives in a multicultural world: the World Bank invests in historic urban enclaves / Arlene K. Fleming; title: Eternal Mexico: between nationalism and globalization / Rita Eder; title: Anxiety and expedience: Chinese art history seen in the context of world art / Cao Yiqiang; title: World aesthetics: biology, culture, and reflection / Wilfried van Damme; title: Writing about modernist painting outside Western Europe and North America / James Elkins; title: World art history and the rise of Western modernism, or, Goodbye to the visual arts / David Summers; title: A brief natural history of art / John Onians.