A collective rewrites art history outside the timeline
A new reference work edited by three historians abandons the usual chronological march through art history, drawing instead on archaeology, sociology, ethnology, economics and museum curatorship.
Le Monde reports on a collective 'Histoire de l'art' directed by Etienne Anheim, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Charlotte Guichard, which breaks with the conventional chronological survey that has long structured the genre.
According to the newspaper, the book's approach is deliberately multidisciplinary: alongside art historians, it brings in archaeologists, sociologists, ethnologists, economists and museum curators, each contributing a different lens on how art has been made, classified and valued.
Le Monde describes the result as renewing and unsettling the genre, precisely because it refuses the straight line from one period or movement to the next in favor of a more open set of questions and approaches.
No further details on the book's structure, length, publisher or release date were included in the available material.
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