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Art history : a critical introduction to its methods / Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk.
LIBRA N7480 .H38 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hatt, Michael, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Historiography.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
- Summary:
- Art history: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to postcolonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying philosophical and political assumptions behind each method, along with clear examples of how these are brought to bear on visual and historical analysis, the authors show that an adherence to a certain method is, in effect, a commitment to a set of beliefs and values. The book makes a strong case for the vitality of the discipline and its methodological centrality to new fields such as visual culture.
- This book will be of enormous value to undergraduate and graduate students, and also makes its own contributions to ongoing scholarly debates about theory and method.
- Contents:
- 2 A variety of interpretations: a preview 11
- 3 Hegel and the birth of art history 21
- Hegel's philosophy of art 23
- Hegel's art history 25
- Critical appraisal 37
- 4 Connoisseurship 40
- Style, manner and artistic character: Karl Friedrich von Rumohr 42
- Rumohr's art history 45
- Giovanni Morelli 48
- Morelli's natural history of art 50
- Bernard Berenson 56
- Berenson's method 58
- Critical appraisal 60
- 5 Formalism: Heinrich Wolfflin and Alois Riegl 65
- Formalism 66
- Heinrich Wolfflin 71
- Wolfflin's art history 76
- Alois Riegl 80
- Riegl's art history 85
- Critical appraisal 90
- 6 Iconography-iconology: Erwin Panofsky 96
- Panofsky's theoretical framework 100
- Panofsky's method in action 106
- Melancholia I 109
- Critical appraisal 114
- 7 Marxism and the social history of art 120
- Marxism 122
- Marxist art history 128
- Social art history 134
- Critical appraisal 138
- 8 Feminism 145
- Setting the agenda: Nochlin, Parker and Pollock 150
- Michel Foucault: discourse and power 157
- Gay, lesbian, queer 163
- Critical appraisal 169
- 9 Psychoanalysis 174
- Freud on Leonardo 179
- Looking and Lacanian analysis 185
- Critical appraisal 194
- 10 Semiotics 200
- Saussure 201
- Icon, index, symbol: Peirce 208
- Semiotics in practice 212
- Critical appraisal 218
- 11 Postcolonialism 223
- Edward Said and Orientalism 225
- Hybridity 230
- Critical appraisal 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719069580
- 0719069599
- OCLC:
- 62133072
- Publisher Number:
- 9780719069581
- 9780719069598
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