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Art history after modernism / Hans Belting ; translated by Caroline Saltzwedel and Mitch Cohen with additional translation by Kenneth Northcott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belting, Hans.
- Standardized Title:
- Ende der Kunstgeschichte? English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Historiography.
- Art.
- Art criticism--Historiography.
- Art criticism.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- So begins Hans Belting's brilliant reconsideration of art and art history at the end of the millennium, which builds upon his earlier and highly successful volume, The End of the History of Art? Belting, "known for his striking and original theories about the nature of art" (the Economist), here examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history has built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art. He moves effortlessly between contemporary issues -- the rise of global and minority art and its consequences for Western art history, installation and video art, and the troubled institution of the art museum -- and long-standing questions central to art history's definition of itself, such as the distinction between high and low culture, art criticism versus art history, and the invention of modernism in art history. With Art History after Modernism, Belting retains his place as one of the most original and controversial thinkers in the visual arts today.
- Contents:
- I Modernism in the Mirror of Contemporary Culture
- 1. Epilogues for Art or for Art History? 3
- 2. The Meaning of Art History in Today's Culture 7
- 3. Art Criticism versus Art History 17
- 4. The Unwelcome Heritage of Modernism: Style and History 26
- 5. The Late Cult of Modernism: Documenta and Western Art 37
- 6. Western Art: The Intervention of the United States in Postwar Modernism 44
- 7. Europe: East and West at the Watershed of Art History 54
- 8. Global Art and Minorities: A New Geography of Art History 62
- 9. The Mirror of Mass Culture: Art's Revolt against Art History 74
- 10. The Temporality of Video Art 85
- 11. The Narrative of Art in the New Museum: The Search for a Profile 96
- II The End of Art History?
- 12. Art and the Crisis of Modernism 115
- 13. Art Historiography as Tradition 126
- 14. Methods and Games of an Academic Discipline 137
- 15. Work of Art or History of Art? 148
- 16. Art History versus Media Studies 161
- 17. The Myth of Modernism in the Mirror of Art History 167
- 18. Postmodernism or Posthistory? 174
- 19. "Prospero's Books" 186
- 20. Marco Polo and Other Cultures 192.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: The end of the history of art? 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226041840
- 0226041859
- OCLC:
- 48265530
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