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Hither is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on fine art history of the past 2 centuries. The book includes over 30 pieces past seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum every bit ritual, digital art, and many others. Each of the volume's eight thematic sections offers an introduction providing background information, further reading, and critical commentary on the issues at stake. This edition has been updated and expanded to include sixteen new selections by cardinal figures from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty, a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today, and an entirely new section on Globalization and Its Discontents. For students and teachers, artists and historians, and anyone interested in the evolution and purpose of art history, this anthology offers many fascinating insights.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the New Edition, Donald Preziosi
Art History: Making the Visible Legible, Donald Preziosi
i. Art every bit History
Introduction
Preface to Part 3 of 'The Lives', Giorgio Vasari
Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture, Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Fine art History, Whitney Davis
Patterns of Intention, Michael Baxandall
two. Aesthetics
Introduction
What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant
Philosophy of Fine Fine art, G.W.F. Hegel
Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic, D.N. Rodowick
Fetish, Wilhelm Pietz
3. Form, Content, and Mode
Introduction
Principles of Fine art History, Heinrich Wölfflin
Style, Ernst Gombrich
'Course', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Trouble of Art Historical Description, David Summers
'Style', David Summers
4. Anthropology and/or Art History
Introduction
Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman 'Kunstwollen', Alois Riegl
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America, Aby Warburg
Warburg'southward Concept of 'Kunstwissenschaft' and its Meaning for Aesthetics, Edgar Wind
Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject field from the Soapbox of Art History, Claire Farago
5. Mechanisms of Meaning
Introduction
Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Written report of Renaissance Art, Erwin Panofsky
Semiotics and Iconography, Hubert Damisch
Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Contexts and Senders, Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson
Meaning/Interpretation, Stephen Bann
vi. The Limits of Interpretation
Introduction
The Temptation of New Perspectives, Stephen Melville
The Origin of the Work of Art, Martin Heidegger
The Nonetheless Life as a Personal Object - a Note on Heidegger and van Gogh, Meyer Schapiro
Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure], Jacques Derrida
vii. Authorship and Identity
Introduction
What is an Author?, Michel Foucault
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism, Craig Owens
Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism, Mary Kelly
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, Judith Butler
Postmodern Automatons, Rey Grub
'Every Human Knows How Beauty Gives Him Pleasance': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics, Amelia Jones
Queer Wallpaper, Jennifer Doyle
8. Globalization and its Discontents
Introduction
Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order, Timothy Mitchell
The Museum as Ritual, Ballad Duncan
The Piece of work of Art in the Historic period of its Technological Reproducibility (Third Version), Walter Benjamin
Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progessive Politics, Satya Mohanty
Visual Civilisation Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice, Marquard Smith
'Life-Like': Historicizing Process in Digital Fine art, Maria Fernandez
Epilogue: The Fine art of Art History, Donald Preziosi
Coda: Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today
Author Information
Donald Preziosi is a member of the History Kinesthesia at Oxford University and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA. He is the author of many books, including In the Aftermath of Art and Rethinking Art History.
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Reviews and Awards
"Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available."--Professor Norman Bryson, University of San Diego
"What makes this album more than an arresting assemblage is the author's disquisitional opinion towards what he has wrought."--Professor Robert Due south. Nelson, Yale University
"Vivid and inspiring...a flamboyant book."--Professor Johanne Lamoureux, University of Montreal
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