"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in
question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions
about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased
urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and
other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline.
The first edition of Critical Terms for Art History both mapped and
contributed to those transformations, offering a spirited reassessment
of the field's methods and terminology. Art history as a field has
kept pace with debates over globalization and other social and
political issues in recent years, making a second edition of this book
not just timely, but crucial. Like its predecessor, this new edition
consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the
history of art, from sign to meaning, ritual to commodity. Each essay
explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term
raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework
for a specific work of art. For example, Richard Shiff discusses
"Originality" in Vija Celmins's To Fix the Image in Memory, a work
made of eleven pairs of stones, each consisting of one "original"
stone and one painted bronze replica. In addition to the twenty-two
original essays, this edition includes nine new ones—performance,
style, memory/monument, body, beauty, ugliness, identity, visual
culture/visual studies, and social history of art—as well as new
introductory material. All help expand the book's scope while
retaining its central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical
issues in art history and making that discussion accessible to both
beginning students and senior scholars. Contributors: Mark Antliff,
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Stephen Bann, Homi K. Bhabha, Suzanne
Preston Blier, Michael Camille, David Carrier, Craig Clunas, Whitney
Davis, Jas Elsner, Ivan Gaskell, Ann Gibson, Charles Harrison, James
D. Herbert, Amelia Jones, Wolfgang Kemp, Joseph Leo Koerner, Patricia
Leighten, Paul Mattick Jr., Richard Meyer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Robert
S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, William Pietz, Alex Potts, Donald Preziosi,
Lisbet Rausing, Richard Shiff, Terry Smith, Kristine Stiles, David
Summers, Paul Wood, James E. Young
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780226571690
Publisert
2018
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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