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Art of Art History A Critical Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0199229848

ISBN-13: 9780199229840

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Donald Preziosi

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What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be. This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: art as…    
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Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.37" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 3.300
Language: English

Introduction to the New Edition
Art History: Making the Visible Legible
Art as History
Introduction
Preface to Part III of 'The Lives'
Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture
Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History
Patterns of Intention
Aesthetics
Introduction
What is Enlightenment?
Philosophy of Fine Art
Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic
Form, Content, and Style
Introduction
Principles of Art History
'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description
'Style'
Anthropology and/or Art History
Introduction
Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman 'Kunstwollen'
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America
Warburg's Concept of 'Kunstwissenschaft' and its Meaning for Aesthetics
Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art History
Mechanisms of Meaning
Introduction
Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art
Semiotics and Iconography
Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Contexts and Senders
Meaning/Interpretation
The Limits of Interpretation
Introduction
The Temptation of New Perspectives
The Origin of the Work of Art
The Still Life as a Personal Object - a Note on Heidegger and van Gogh
Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure]
Authorship and Identity
Introduction
What is an Author?
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Postmodern Automatons
'Every Man Knows How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics
Queer Wallpaper
Globalization and its Discontents
Introduction
Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order
The Museum as Ritual
The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (Third Version)
Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progessive Politics
Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice
'Life-Like': Historicizing Process in Digital Art
Epilogue: The Art of Art History
Coda: Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today