This volume examines the force of art history's attraction to particular objects and the corresponding rhythms of attachment and detachment that animate the dis

He explains when and where in Melville's wanderings throughout America, Europe, and the Near East he saw these works, then describes how Melville made use of th

Since art history is having a major identity crisis as it struggles to adapt to contemporary global and mass media culture, this book intervenes in the struggle

The influence of contemporary literary theory on art history is increasingly evident, but there is little or no agreement about the nature and consequence of th

"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melvil