Critical terms for art history
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Critical terms for art history
University of Chicago Press, 1996
- : cloth
- : paper
Available at 43 libraries
Note
Includes suggested readings, bibliographical references (p. 329-347) and index
"Approximately one-third of chapter 22 appeared as 'Double visions' in Artforum, January 1992"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780226571645
Description
The nature of the visual has recently moved to the centre of debates in the humanities. Art history as a discipline is now addressing some of the most basic questions about cultural production, questions such as how images function and how expectations and social factors mediate what we see. The new scope of art history has required a major expansion and reassessment of methods and terminology. This book is both an exposition and a demonstration of contested terms from the current art historical vocabulary. In individual essays, scholars examine the history and use of these terms by grounding their discussions in single works of art, reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are seeing them employed. Like its companion, "Critical Terms for Literary Study", this book should prove to be of use as a resource both for those beginning to learn about the visual theory and for scholars and historians.
Table of Contents
Contents List of illustrations At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing/Robert S. Nelson Operations Representation/David Summers Sign/Alex Potts Simulacrum/Michael Camille Communications Word and Image/W. J. T. Mitchell Narrative/Wolfgang Kemp Context/Paul Mattick, Jr. Meaning/Interpretation/Stephen Bann Histories Originality/Richard Shiff Appropriation/Robert S. Nelson Art History/David Carrier Modernism/Charles Harrison Avant-Garde/Ann Gibson Primitive/Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten Social Relations Ritual/Suzanne Preston Blier Fetish/William Pietz Gaze/Margaret Olin Gender/Whitney Davis Societies Modes of Production/Terry Smith Commodity/Paul Wood Collecting Museums/Donald Preziosi Value/Joseph Leo Koerner and Lisbet Koerner Postmodernism/Postcolonialism/Homi K. Bhabha Afterword: Figuration/Richard Shiff References Contributors Index
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: paper ISBN 9780226571652
Description
The nature of the visual has recently moved to the centre of debates in the humanities. Art history as a discipline is now addressing some of the most basic questions about cultural production, questions such as how images function and how expectations and social factors mediate what we see. The new scope of art history has required a major expansion and reassessment of methods and terminology. This book is both an exposition and a demonstration of contested terms from the current art historical vocabulary. In individual essays, scholars examine the history and use of these terms by grounding their discussions in single works of art, reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are seeing them employed. Like its companion, "Critical Terms for Literary Study", this book should prove to be of use as a resource both for those beginning to learn about the visual theory and for scholars and historians.
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