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The Subjects of art history : historical objects in contemporary perspective /

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0521455723
  • 9780521455725
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N7480 .S83 1998
Contents:
Immanuel Kant and the bo(a)rders of art history / Mark A. Cheetham -- Art history's Hegelian unconscious : naturalism as nationalism in the study of early Netherlandish painting / Keith Moxey -- Spirits and ghosts in the historiography of art / Michael Ann Holly -- Seeing signs : the use of semiotics for the understanding of visual art / Mieke Bal -- Politics of feminist art history / Patricia Mathews -- "Homosexualism," gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory in art history / Whitney Davis -- Phenomenology and the limits of hermeneutics / Stephen Melville -- Photo-logos : photography and deconstruction / David Phillips -- Work of art and its beholder : the methodology of the aesthetic of reception / Wolfgang Kemp -- Between art history and psychoanalysis : I/eye-ing Monet with Freud and Lacan / Steven Z. Levine -- Passing between art history and postcolonial theory / James D. Herbert -- Art history and museums / Stephen Bann -- Museums and galleries as sites for artistic intervention / Gerald McMaster -- Art history's significant other-- film studies / Bruce Barber -- Interpreting the void : architecture and spatial anxiety / Anthony Vidler -- Computer applications for art history / William Vaughan.
Summary: The Subject of Art History provides an introduction to the historiography and theory of the history of art. Examining a variety of theoretical approaches, the editors and contributors to this volume provide interpretations of the history and contemporary relevance of such important methodologies as semiotics, phenomenology, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, museology, and computer applications, among other topics. Each essay, specially commissioned for this volume, gives a fresh perspective on the topic by demonstrating how a particular approach can be applied to the understanding and interpretation of specific works of art. This volume will be a timely contribution to the current debate on the theory and practice of art history. - Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immanuel Kant and the bo(a)rders of art history / Mark A. Cheetham -- Art history's Hegelian unconscious : naturalism as nationalism in the study of early Netherlandish painting / Keith Moxey -- Spirits and ghosts in the historiography of art / Michael Ann Holly -- Seeing signs : the use of semiotics for the understanding of visual art / Mieke Bal -- Politics of feminist art history / Patricia Mathews -- "Homosexualism," gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory in art history / Whitney Davis -- Phenomenology and the limits of hermeneutics / Stephen Melville -- Photo-logos : photography and deconstruction / David Phillips -- Work of art and its beholder : the methodology of the aesthetic of reception / Wolfgang Kemp -- Between art history and psychoanalysis : I/eye-ing Monet with Freud and Lacan / Steven Z. Levine -- Passing between art history and postcolonial theory / James D. Herbert -- Art history and museums / Stephen Bann -- Museums and galleries as sites for artistic intervention / Gerald McMaster -- Art history's significant other-- film studies / Bruce Barber -- Interpreting the void : architecture and spatial anxiety / Anthony Vidler -- Computer applications for art history / William Vaughan.

The Subject of Art History provides an introduction to the historiography and theory of the history of art. Examining a variety of theoretical approaches, the editors and contributors to this volume provide interpretations of the history and contemporary relevance of such important methodologies as semiotics, phenomenology, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, museology, and computer applications, among other topics. Each essay, specially commissioned for this volume, gives a fresh perspective on the topic by demonstrating how a particular approach can be applied to the understanding and interpretation of specific works of art. This volume will be a timely contribution to the current debate on the theory and practice of art history. - Publisher

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