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9780226571683

Critical Terms for Art History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226571683

  • ISBN10:

    0226571688

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of Critical Terms for Art History both mapped and contributed to those transformations, offering a spirited reassessment of the field's methods and terminology.Art history as a field has kept pace with debates over globalization and other social and political issues in recent years, making a second edition of this book not just timely, but crucial. Like its predecessor, this new edition consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from sign to meaning, ritual to commodity. Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art. For example, Richard Shiff discusses "Originality" in Vija Celmins's To Fix the Image in Memory, a work made of eleven pairs of stones, each consisting of one "original" stone and one painted bronze replica. In addition to the twenty-two original essays, this edition includes nine new onesperformance, style, memory/monument, body, beauty, ugliness, identity, visual culture/visual studies, and social history of artas well as new introductory material. All help expand the book's scope while retaining its central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical issues in art history and making that discussion accessible to both beginning students and senior scholars.Contributors: Mark Antliff, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Stephen Bann, Homi K. Bhabha, Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Camille, David Carrier, Craig Clunas, Whitney Davis, Jas Elsner, Ivan Gaskell, Ann Gibson, Charles Harrison, James D. Herbert, Amelia Jones, Wolfgang Kemp, Joseph Leo Koerner, Patricia Leighten, Paul Mattick Jr., Richard Meyer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, William Pietz, Alex Potts, Donald Preziosi, Lisbet Rausing, Richard Shiff, Terry Smith, Kristine Stiles, David Summers, Paul Wood, James E. Young

Author Biography

Robert S. Nelson is a Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and History of Culture at the University of Chicago. Lately he has edited Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw and is currently working on a book about the modern lives of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Mediation ix
Robert S. Nelson
At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing xiii
Robert S. Nelson
OPERATIONS
Representation
3(17)
David Summers
Sign
20(15)
Alex Potts
Simulacrum
35(16)
Michael Camille
COMMUNICATIONS
Word and Image
51(11)
W. J. T. Mitchell
Narrative
62(13)
Wolfgang Kemp
Performance
75(23)
Kristine Stiles
Style
98(12)
Jas Elsner
Context
110(18)
Paul Mattick, Jr.
Meaning/Interpretation
128(17)
Stephen Bann
HISTORIES
Originality
145(15)
Richard Shiff
Appropriation
160(14)
Robert S. Nelson
Art History
174(14)
David Carrier
Modernism
188(14)
Charles Harrison
Avant-Garde
202(15)
Ann Gibson
Primitive
217(17)
Mark Antliff
Patricia Leighten
Memory/Monument
234(17)
James E. Young
SOCIAL RELATIONS
Body
251(16)
Amelia Jones
Beauty
267(14)
Ivan Gaskell
Ugliness
281(15)
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Ritual
296(10)
Suzanne Preston Blier
Fetish
306(12)
William Pietz
Gaze
318(12)
Margaret Olin
Gender
330(15)
Whitney Davis
Identity
345(16)
Richard Meyer
SOCIETIES
Production
361(21)
Terry Smith
Commodity
382(25)
Paul Wood
Collecting/Museums
407(12)
Donald Preziosi
Value
419(16)
Joseph Leo Koerner
Lisbet Rausing
Postmodernism/Postcolonialism
435(17)
Homi K. Bhabha
Visual Culture/Visual Studies
452(13)
James D. Herbert
Social History of Art
465(14)
Craig Clunas
Afterword: Figuration 479(8)
Richard Shiff
List of Contributors 487(5)
Index 492

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