Writing art history : disciplinary departures
Title:
Writing art history : disciplinary departures
Author:
Iversen, Margaret.
ISBN:
9780226388267
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Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
What's the matter with methodology? -- Historical distance (bridging and spanning) -- On the limits of interpretation: Dürer's Melencolia I -- What the formalist knows -- The spectator: Riegl, Steinberg, and Morris -- The gaze in perspective: Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Damisch -- Seeing and reading: Lyotard, Barthes, Schapiro -- Plasticity: the Hegelian writing of art -- Curriculum.
Abstract:
Since art history is having a major identity crisis as it struggles to adapt to contemporary global and mass media culture, this book intervenes in the struggle by laying bare the troublesome assumptions and presumptions at the field's foundations in a series of essays.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-234) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib npmsb 10322003 N7480 I84 stc