The Art of Art History: A Critical AnthologyDonald Preziosi "What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be." "This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: art as history; aesthetics; form, content, and style; anthropology; meaning and interpretation; authorship and identity; and the phenomenon of globalization. More than thirty readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Mary Kelly, and Michel Foucault are brought together, with editorial introductions to each topic providing background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake." "This updated and expanded edition contains sixteen newly included extracts from key thinkers in the history of art, from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty; a new section on globalization; and also a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today." --Book Jacket. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Making the Visible Legible | 7 |
Chapter 1 Art as History | 13 |
Chapter 2 Aesthetics | 55 |
Chapter 3 Form Content Style | 115 |
Chapter 4 Anthropology andas Art History | 151 |
Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Meaning | 215 |
Chapter 6 Deconstruction and the Limits of Interpretation | 271 |
Chapter 7 Authorship and Identity | 317 |
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