Breaking the silence: methods of writing art history

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"A collection of essays that think with, against, and beside the intellectual questions that have engaged Michael Ann Holly throughout her storied career." -- page 4 of cover.

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Introduction: Temporal poetics of encounter: Michael Ann Holly & method / Caroline Fowler -- Part I: Mourning, melancholy, and method. The necessity of the arts in education today / Michael S. Roth -- With one eye on the wild: Michael Ann Holly and The wolf of Gubbio / Dore Bowen -- The melancholy of ecocritical art and art history / Mark A. Cheetham -- Date obolum belisario: Commanding and pleading pictures / Mark Ledbury -- On last paintings: Making meaning of loss in nineteenth-century art / Marc Gotlieb -- Part II: Encounters: Art in movement. Decollecting / Stephen Bann -- Piero della Francesca's angelology: Virgin and child enthroned with four angels / David Carrier -- Monet's melancholy and the act of writing art history / Mary-Dailey Desmarais -- An invitation to think / Hanneke Grootenboer -- Teeth of gales / Christopher P. Heuer -- A Hawaiian feather cloak in the age of extinction / Elliot Krasnopoler -- Patterns in the dust / James Nisbet -- The ways of the trowel / Glenn Peers -- Empathy for the animal / James Pilgrim -- Thresholds of history painting: Thinking with Michael Ann Holly on melancholy cross-cultural histories of art / Mary Roberts -- Lost object lesson: Mike Kelley's Kandor 10B (Exploded fortress of solitude) / Nathan Stobaugh -- Taxidermy: A melancholy art / Kari Weil -- A Rochester garden / Janet Wolff -- Imagine Watteau / Oliver Wunsch -- Part III: An interlude. Collage and language / Elena Ciletti -- Part IV: Afterwords. The work of art: Friendship, poetry, and painting / Mieke Bal -- Always: Michael Ann Holly's art historical life / Alexander Nemerov.