Critical Terms for Art History
Douban
Robert S Nelson
overblik
The nature of the visual has recently moved to the centre of debates in the humanities. Art history as a discipline is now addressing some of the most basic questions about cultural production, questions such as how images function and how expectations and social factors mediate what we see. The new scope of art history has required a major expansion and reassessment of methods and terminology. This book is both an exposition and a demonstration of contested terms from the current art historical vocabulary. In individual essays, scholars examine the history and use of these terms by grounding their discussions in single works of art, reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are seeing them employed. Like its companion, "Critical Terms for Literary Study", this book should prove to be of use as a resource both for those beginning to learn about the visual theory and for scholars and historians.
contents
List of Illustrations
Mediation / Robert S. Nelson
At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing / Robert S. Nelson
OPERATIONS
1. Representation / David Summers
2. Sign / Alex Potts
3. Simulacrum / Michael Camille
COMMUNICATIONS
4. Word and Image / W. J. T. Mitchell
5. Narrative / Wolfgang Kemp
6. Performance / Kristine Stiles
7. Style / Jas Elsner
8. Context / Paul Mattick, Jr.
9. Meaning/Interpretation / Stephen Bann
HISTORIES
10. Originality / Richard Shiff
11. Appropriation / Robert S. Nelson
12. Art History / David Carrier
13. Modernism / Charles Harrison
14. Avant-Garde / Ann Gibson
15. Primitive / Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten
16. Memory/Monument / James E. Young
SOCIAL RELATIONS
17. Body / Amelia Jones
18. Beauty / Ivan Gaskell
19. Ugliness / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
20. Ritual / Suzanne Preston Blier
21. Fetish / William Pietz
22. Gaze / Margaret Olin
23. Gender / Whitney Davis
24. Identity / Richard Meyer
SOCIETIES
25. Production / Terry Smith
26. Commodity / Paul Wood
27. Collecting/Museums / Donald Preziosi
28. Value / Joseph Leo Koerner and Lisbet Rausing
29. Postmodernism/Postcolonialism / Homi K. Bhabha
30. Visual Culture/Visual Studies / James D. Herbert
31. Social History of Art / Craig Clunas
Afterword: Figuration / Richard Shiff
