Download or read book Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science written by Donald Preziosi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... General overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the discipline, its institutionalization, and its academic expansion since the 1870s"--Publisher's description.