Methodologies of Art An Introduction

Name: Methodologies of Art An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780813344508

ISBN-10: 0813344506

ISBN-13: 9780813344508

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Laurie Schneider Adams

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Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been ldquo;readrdquo; in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a workrsquo;s perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what itrsquo;s made of). The methodologies discussed here-formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, psychoanalysis, structuralism, race and gender-reflect…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Publication date: 12/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



What Is Art?



Formalism and Style



Iconography



Contextual Approaches I: Marxism, Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racial Iconography



Contextual Approaches II: Feminism and Gender



Biography and Autobiography



Semiotics I: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism



Semiotics II: Deconstruction



Psychoanalysis I: Freud



Psychoanalysis II: Winnicott and Lacan



Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Roger Fry and Roland Barthes


Epilogue: Some Methodologies Applied to Titian's Rape of Lucrezia


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index