Contents:
Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison, by Stanley K. Abe and Jaś Elsner
Chapter 1: Our Literal Speed, by Our Literal Speed
Chapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations, by Wu Hung
Chapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative, by Whitney Davis
Chapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation, by Margaret Olin
Chapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context, by Ittai Weinryb
Chapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History, by Stanley K. Abe
Chapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin, by Avinoam Shalem
Chapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison – An Illusive Dream?, by Susanne Küchler
Chapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison, by Richard Neer
Chapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction, by Robert Slifkin
Chapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art, by Jeremy Tanner
Biography
Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK and Visiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA.
