What Is Art History? Why, How And Where Did It Originate, And How Have Its Aims And Methods Changed Over Time? This Work Is A Guide To Understanding Art History Through A Critical Reading Of The Field's Most Influential Texts Over The Past Two Centuries. 1. Art As History -- Lives Of The Painters, Sculptors, And Architects / Giorgio Vasari -- Reflections On The Imitation Of Greek Works In Painting And Sculpture / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Winckelmann Divided : Mourning The Death Of Art History / Whitney Davis -- Patterns Of Intention / Michael Baxandall -- 2. Aesthetics -- The Critique Of Judgement / Immanuel Kant -- Philosophy Of Fine Art / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Impure Mimesis, Or, The Ends Of The Aesthetic / D.n. Rodowick -- Fetish / William Pietz -- 3. Form, Content, Style -- Principles Of Art History / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Style / Ernst Gombrich -- 'form', Nineteenth-century Metaphysics, And The Problem Of Art Historical Description / David Summers -- Style / David Summers -- 4. Anthropology And/as Art History -- Leading Characteristics Of The Late Roman Kunstwollen / Alois Riegl -- Images From The Region Of The Pueblo Indians Of North America / Aby Warburg -- Warburg's Concept Of Kulturwissenschaft And Its Meaning For Aesthetics / Edgar Wind -- Silent Moves : On Excluding The Ethnographic Subject From The Discourse Of Art History / Claire Farago -- 5. Mechanisms Of Meaning -- Iconography And Iconology : An Introduction To The Study Of Renaissance Art / Erwin Panofsky -- Semiotics And Iconography / Hubert Damisch -- Semiotics And Art History : A Discussion Of Context And Senders / Mieke Bal And Norman Bryson -- Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann -- 6. Deconstruction And The Limits To Interpretation -- The Temptation Of New Perspectives / Stephen Melville -- The Origin Of The Work Of Art / Martin Heidegger -- The Still Life As A Personal Object : A Note On Heidegger And Van Gogh / Meyer Schapiro -- Restitutions Of The Truth In Pointing [pointure] / Jacques Derrida -- 7. Authorship And Identity -- What Is An Author? / Michel Foucault -- The Discourse Of Others : Feminists And Postmodernism / Craig Owens -- Re-viewing Modernist Criticism / Mary Kelly -- Performative Acts And Gender Constitution : An Essay In Phenomenology And Feminist Theory / Judith Butler -- Postmodern Automatons / Rey Chow -- 'every Man Knows Where And How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure' : Beauty Discourse And The Logic Of Aesthetics / Amelia Jones -- Queer Wallpaper / Jennifer Doyle -- 8. Globalization And Its Discontents -- Orientalism And The Exhibitionary Order / Timothy Mitchell -- The Art Museum As Ritual / Carol Duncan -- The Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility / Walter Benjamin -- Can Our Values Be Objective? : On Ethics, Aesthetics And Progressive Politics / Satya P. Mohanty -- Visual Culture Studies : Questions Of History, Theory, And Practice / Marquard Smith -- 'life-like' : Historicizing Process And Responsiveness In Digital Art / MarÃa Fernández -- Epilogue : The Art Of Art History / Donald Preziosi -- Plato's Dilemma And The Tasks Of The Art Historian Today. Edited By Donald Preziosi. Previous Ed. Published: 1998. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 510-565) And Index.
Categories:
- Arts & Photography
- History & Criticism
- History
- History & Criticism
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Author : Preziosi, Donald
Language : English
Edition : New
Published :2009-04-15
Number Of Pages : 624
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0199229848
ISBN-13 : 9780199229840
Item weight : 3.3 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 6.6 in x 9.3 in
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