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Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0226571688

ISBN-13: 9780226571683

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff

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The words used to describe and analyse art are the subject of this examination of the new scope of art history and the terms used by those involved in visual and pictorial theory.
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.37" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.354
Language: English

Robert Nelson is Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art and Medieval Art and Architecture at Yale University.

List of Illustrations
Mediation
At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing
Operations
Representation
Sign
Simulacrum
Communications
Word and Image
Narrative
Performance
Style
Context
Meaning/Interpretation
Histories
Originality
Appropriation
Art History
Modernism
Avant-Garde
Primitive
Memory/Monument
Social Relations
Body
Beauty
Ugliness
Ritual
Fetish
Gaze
Gender
Identity
Societies
Production
Commodity
Collecting/Museums
Value
Postmodernism/Postcolonialism
Visual Culture/Visual Studies
Social History of Art
Afterword: Figuration
List of Contributors
Index