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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)by Donald Preziosi
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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.
The Art of Art History is a unique guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: aesthetics, style, history as an art, iconography and semiology, gender, modernity and postmodernity, deconstruction and museology. More than thirty readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Gombrich, Warburg, Panofsky, Heidegger, Lisa Tickner, Meyer Schapiro, Jacques Derrida, Mary Kelly, Michel Foucault, Rosalind Krauss, Louis Marin, Margaret Iversen, and Nestor Canclini are brought together, and Donald Preziosi's introductions to each topic provide background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake. His own concluding essay is an important and original contribution to scholarship in the field. Synopsis:Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum as ritual, digital art, and many others. Each of the book's eight thematic sections offers an introduction providing background information, further reading, and critical commentary on the issues at stake. This edition has been updated and expanded to include sixteen new selections by key figures from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty, a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today, and an entirely new section on Globalization and Its Discontents. For students and teachers, artists and historians, and anyone interested in the evolution and purpose of art history, this anthology offers many fascinating insights.
About the AuthorDonald Preziosi is a member of the History Faculty at Oxford University and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA. He is the author of many books, including In the Aftermath of Art and Rethinking Art History.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Donald Preziosi, Art History: Making the Visible Legible Chapter 1: Art as History Introduction Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture Whitney Davis, Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History Chapter 2: Aesthetics Introduction Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Fine Art D.N. Rodowick, Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic William Pietz, Fetish Chapter 3: Form, Content, Style Introduction Heinrich W�lfflin, Principles of Art History Ernst Gombrich, Style David Summers, 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the problem of Art Historical Description David Summers, Style Chapter 4: Anthropology and/as Art History Introduction Alois Riegl, Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman Kunstwollen Aby Warburg, Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America Edgar Wind, Warburg's Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and its Meaning for Aesthetics Claire Farago, Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art History Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Meaning Introduction Erwin Panofsky, Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art Hubert Damisch, Semiotics and Iconography Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson, Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Context and Senders Stephen Bann, Meaning/Interpretation Chapter 6: Deconstruction and the Limits of Interpretation Introduction Stephen Melville, The Temptation of New Perspectives Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art Meyer Schapiro, The Still Life as a Personal Object: A Note on Heidegger and Van Gogh Jacques Derrida, Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure] Chapter 7: Authorship and Identity Introduction Michael Foucault, What is an Author? Craig Owens, The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Mary Kelly, Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Rey Chow, Postmodern Automatons Jennifer Doyle, Queer Wallpaper Chapter 8: Globalization and its Discontents Introduction Timothy Mitchell, Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order Carol Duncan, The Art Museum as Ritual Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility Satya P. Mohanty, Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics Marquard Smith, Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice Mar�a Fern�ndez, 'Life-like': Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art Donald Preziosi, Epilogue: The Art of Art History Coda, Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today Notes List of Texts List of Illustrations Biographical Notes Glossary Index Introduction to the New Edition, Donald Preziosi Art History: Making the Visible Legible, Donald Preziosi 1. Art as History Introduction Preface to Part III of 'The Lives', 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 Introduction What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant Philosophy of Fine Art, G.W.F. Hegel Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic, D.N. Rodowick Fetish, Wilhelm Pietz 3. Form, Content, and Style Introduction Principles of Art History, Heinrich W�lfflin Style, Ernst Gombrich 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description, David Summers 'Style', David Summers 4. Anthropology and/or Art History Introduction 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 'Kunstwissenschaft' 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 Introduction 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 Contexts and Senders, Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson Meaning/Interpretation, Stephen Bann 6. The Limits of Interpretation Introduction 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 Introduction 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 How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics, Amelia Jones Queer Wallpaper, Jennifer Doyle 8. Globalization and its Discontents Introduction Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order, Timothy Mitchell The Museum as Ritual, Carol Duncan The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (Third Version), Walter Benjamin Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progessive Politics, Satya Mohanty Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice, Marquard Smith 'Life-Like': Historicizing Process in Digital Art, Maria Fernandez Epilogue: The Art of Art History, Donald Preziosi Coda: Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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