The art of art history : a critical anthology / edited by Donald Preziosi.

Other author Preziosi, Donald, 1941-
Format Book
EditionNew, 2nd ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionvii, 591 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesOxford history of art
Oxford history of art. ^A388008
Contents 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 --
Contents 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 / María Fernández -- Epilogue : the art of art history / Donald Preziosi -- Plato's dilemma and the tasks of the art historian today.
Local noteLittle-352251--305131030326R
General notePrevious ed.: 1998.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 510-563) and index.
LCCN 2009921237
ISBN9780199229840 (pbk.)
ISBN0199229848 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks N7480 .A79 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold