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August 8, 2007
A. A. Donohue Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 278 pp.; 43 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521840848)
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Alice Donohue’s new book examines descriptions of ancient Greek sculpture written in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and the light they shed on the intellectual history of classical archaeology. She argues that the practice common in archaeological publication of isolating description from interpretation was instrumental in perpetuating a false empiricism, characterized by the denial of the subjective nature of vision. Her inquiry focuses on the historiography of early Greek sculpture, a category that she maintains...