Art and History: Images and their Meaning

by Robert I. Rotberg (Editor)

This book was originally published in 1988. Although they pursue divergent lines of analysis, these essays by historians and art historians reveal their mutual appreciation of art as historic evidence shaped by imagination as well as tradition and purpose.

316 pages, Hardcover

First published June 24, 1988

About the author

Robert Irwin Rotberg is an American academic who served as President of the World Peace Foundation (1993–2010). A professor in governance and foreign affairs, he was director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1999–2010), and has served in administrative positions at Tufts University and Lafayette College.

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Despite the dated year of publication, this book has been thoroughly helpful in helping me reshape and finesse some of the points that I am trying to make in my thesis.