Painting, Self, and Society at the Cusp of Abstraction
Comments on Art and Comparative Cultural History
in French Politics, Culture & Society
Author:
Debora Silverman
Debora Silverman
University of California, Los Angeles
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It is very gratifying, at the end of the long journey this book entailed, to have responses generated from two fields and from some of the scholars whose writings have inspired me along the way. What I’d like to do in my comments is not to rehash material in the book—I hope those of you who haven’t yet will get a chance to read it. (It is now available in a paperback edition.) Rather, I’d like to raise some broader issues for our future work relating to the position of navigating between the disciplines of art history and cultural history as we try to write in the links between biography, society, and style in specific national contexts, and the particular benefits of comparative analysis as we do so.