Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA.

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• Contents:Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison, by Stanley K. Abe and Jaś ElsnerChapter 1: Our Literal Speed, by Our Literal SpeedChapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations, by Wu HungChapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative, by Whitney DavisChapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation, by Margaret OlinChapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context, by Ittai WeinrybChapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History, by Stanley K. AbeChapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin, by Avinoam ShalemChapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison – An Illusive Dream?, by Susanne KüchlerChapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison, by Richard NeerChapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction, by Robert SlifkinChapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art, by Jeremy Tanner

Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK andVisiting Professor of Art and Religion, University of Chicago, USA.

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• Contents:Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparison, by Stanley K. Abe and Jaś ElsnerChapter 1: Our Literal Speed, by Our Literal SpeedChapter 2: Locations of Comparison: Some Personal Observations, by Wu HungChapter 3: Bivisibility: Why Art History is Comparative, by Whitney DavisChapter 4: Redundacy, Transformation, Impersonation, by Margaret OlinChapter 5: The Object in the Comparative Context, by Ittai WeinrybChapter 6: Sculpture: A Comparative History, by Stanley K. AbeChapter 7: Intersecting Historiographies: Henri Pirenne, Ernst Herzfeld, and the Myth of Origin, by Avinoam ShalemChapter 8: Comparativism in Anthropology: Big Questions and Scaled Comparison – An Illusive Dream?, by Susanne KüchlerChapter 9: Was the Knidia a Statue? Art History and the Terms of Comparison, by Richard NeerChapter 10: Christian Marclay’s Real Time Fiction, by Robert SlifkinChapter 11: Narrative, Naturalism and the Body in Classical Greek and Early Imperial Chinese Art, by Jeremy Tanner