The Practice of Persuasion : Paradox and Power in Art History / Keith Moxey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moxey, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism--Methodology.

Art criticism.

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 146 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This sequel to The Practice of Theory stresses the continued need for self-reflective awareness in art historical writing. Offering a series of meditations on the discipline of art history in the context of contemporary critical theory, Moxey addresses such central issues as the status of the canon, the nature of aesthetic value, and the character of historical knowledge. The chapters are linked by a common interest in, even fascination with, the paradoxical power of narrative and the identity of the authorial voice. Moxey maintains that art history is a rhetoric of persuasion rather than a discourse of truth. Each chapter in The Practice of Persuasion attempts to demonstrate the paradoxes inherent in a genre that-while committed to representing the past-must inevitably bear the imprint of the present. In Moxey's view, art history as a discipline is often unable to recognize its status as a regime of truth that produces historically determined meanings and so continues to act as if based on a universal aesthetic foundation. His new book should enable art historians to engage with the past in a manner less determined by tradition and more responsive to contemporary values and aspirations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Politics of Persuasion

Chapter One. Art History's Hegelian Unconscious: Naturalism as Nationalism in the Study of Early Netherlandish Painting

Chapter Two. History, Fiction, Memory: Riemenschneider and the Dangers of Persuasion

Chapter Three. Motivating History

Chapter Four. Perspective, Panoftky, and the Philosophy of History

Chapter Five. Nostalgia for the Real: The Troubled Relation of Art History to Visual Studies

Chapter Six. After the Death of the "Death of the Author"

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501729034

1501729039

OCLC:

1080549386