Object, Image, Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work

by Elizabeth Bakewell, William O. Beeman, Carol McMichael Reese

Report on a collaborative study by the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), and the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), Brown University.

212 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

Reviews

[kristopher]

Outdated but invaluable for, at the very least, how charming it is. The section on the use of computers in art history is especially amazing for 1988. This is such a completely unknown book, but I think anybody entering or even becoming interested in the field would love it. There are an insane amount of delightful insights into what it means, both professionally and personally, to be an art historian, all with a level of sardonicism I would expect from underpaid and overworked academics.