Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. Recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any interpretation betrays the presence of an interpreter. In Past Looking, she challenges that view, arguing that historical objects of representational art are actively engaged in prefiguring the kinds of histories that can be written about them.

Holly directs her attention to early modern works of visual art and their rhetorical roles in legislating the kind of tales told bout them by a few classic cultural commentaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Burckhardt's synchronic vision of the Italian Renaissance, Wölfflin's exemplification of the Baroque, Schapiro's and Freud's dispute over the meanings of Leonardo's art, and Panofsky's exegesis of the disguised symbolism of Northern Renaissance painting.

-作者簡介-

邁剋爾•安•霍利（Michael Ann Holly），因其曆史編撰學和藝術史理論方麵的研究而享有聲譽的美國藝術史學傢。她於1981年獲得康奈爾大學博士學位，其後在羅切斯特大學從教13年，並創立瞭視覺與文化研究學科的研究生項目。

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王洪華，女，吉林雙遼人。1972年生。英國劍橋大學、美國加州洛杉磯大學訪問學者。現就職於長春師範大學外國語學院，教授，碩士生導師。研究方嚮為翻譯學、翻譯理論與實踐、（非）文學翻譯。此前曾先後就職於吉林工商學院（1995—1999）、吉林外國語大學（1999—2016）。長期從事口筆譯教學與實踐工作，曾主講“翻譯理論與實踐”、“口譯理論與技巧”、“翻譯概論”、“外事筆譯”、“口譯工作坊”等課程；筆譯工作量纍計達350萬字，口譯工作時長約200小時。發錶期刊論文20餘篇，獨立齣版專著1部、譯作1部，參與編寫著作2部、教材2部、詞典1部，主持和參與多項省級及以上課題。