A Companion to Art Theory

Plates
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Tradition and the Academy:
Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory
The Classical Concept of Mimesis
Medieval Art Theory
Neoplatonist Aesthetics
Renaissance Art Theories
Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo Da Vinci
Academic Theory 1550-1800
Rhetorical Categories of the Academy
The Picturesque and its Development
Around Modernism:
The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel
E.HGombrich and the Tradition of Hegel
German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory
Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial
Reading Artists' Words
Nietzsche and the Artist
Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes
Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde
On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art
Anti-Art and the Concept of Art
Marcel Duchamp's Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex
Critical Theory and Postmodernism:
Marxism and Critical Art History
Walter Benjamin and Art Theory
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
Pierce's Visuality and the Semiotics of Art
Conceptual Art
Barthes on Art
Foucault and Art
Derrida and the Parergon
Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime
Deleuze on Francis Bacon
Feminisms and Art Theory
Psycho-Phallus (Qu'est-ce que c'est?)
Interpretation and the Institution of Art:
The Rules of Representation
Gombrich and Psychology
Hermeneutics and Art Theory
Reciprocity and Reception Theory
The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art
Interdiscipliniarity and Visual Culture
Against Curatorial Imperalism
The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Anti-Theory
Index
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