Art History A Critical Introduction to Its Methods

by Hatt, Michael; Klonk, Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9780719069598
• ISBN10: 0719069599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-09
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

This book provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, 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.

Author Biography

Michael Hatt is Head of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. Charlotte Klonk is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
1 Introduction
PART ONE
2 A variety of interpretations: a preview	11	(10)
3 Hegel and the birth of art history	21	(19)
Hegel's philosophy of art	23	(2)
Hegel's art history	25	(12)
Critical appraisal	37	(2)
Bibliography	39	(1)
4 Connoisseurship	40	(25)
Style, manner and artistic character: Karl Friedrich von Rumohr	42	(3)
Rumohr's art history	45	(3)
Giovanni Morelli	48	(2)
Morelli's natural history of art	50	(6)
Bernard Berenson	56	(2)
Berenson's method	58	(2)
Critical appraisal	60	(3)
Bibliography	63	(2)
5 Formalism: Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl	65	(31)
Formalism	66	(5)
Heinrich WOlfflin	71	(5)
Wölfflin's art history	76	(9)
Alois Riegl 8o
Riegl's art history	85	(5)
Critical appraisal	90	(5)
Bibliography	95	(1)
6 Iconography—iconology: Erwin Panofsky	96	(24)
Panofsky's theoretical framework	100	(9)
Panofsky's method in action io	o6
Melancholia I	109	(5)
Critical appraisal	114	(4)
Bibliography	118	(2)
7 Marxism and the social history of art	120	(25)
Marxism	122	(6)
Marxist art history	128	(6)
Social art history	134	(4)
Critical appraisal	138	(3)
Bibliography	141	(4)
PART TWO
8 Feminism	145	(29)
Setting the agenda: Nochlin, Parker and Pollock	150	(7)
Michel Foucault: discourse and power	157	(6)
Gay, lesbian, queer	163	(6)
Critical appraisal	169	(3)
Bibliography	172	(2)
9 Psychoanalysis	174	(26)
Freud on Leonardo	179	(6)
Looking and Lacanian analysis	185	(9)
Critical appraisal	194	(4)
Bibliography	198	(2)
10 Semiotics	200	(23)
Saussure	201	(97)
Icon, index, symbol: Peirce	298
Semiotics in practice	212	(6)
Critical appraisal	218	(3)
Bibliography	221	(2)
11 Postcolonialism	223	(18)
Edward Said and Orientalism	225	(5)
Hybridity	230	(6)
Critical appraisal	236	(3)
Bibliography	239	(2)
12 Conclusion	241	(4)
Index	245