Critical Terms for Art History

'Over the past decade, the nature of the visual and the pictorial has moved to the center of debates in the humanities. No longer simply the study of timeless masterpieces, art history as a discipline now addresses basic notions of cultural production and questions how images function and how they mediate what we see. The new scope of art history has led to a major expansion and reassessment of its methods and terminology.

Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, Critical Terms for Art History 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 and reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are being employed. In its wide representation of current discourses, Critical Terms for Art History is a comprehensive effort to map historical and theoretical debates over the contemporary visual and pictorial environment.' - from the back cover

Access level

Onsite

publisher

The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, United States)

editor

Robert S. NELSON,

Richard SHIFF

Location code

REF.NER

Language

English

Keywords

art theory, art history

Publication/Creation date

1996

No of pages

364

ISBN / ISSN

9780226571652

No of copies

Content type

anthology,

dictionary/encyclopedia

Chapter headings

At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing - Robert S. NELSON

Operations

Representation - David SUMMERS

Sign - Alex POTTS

Simulacrum - Michael CAMILLE

Communications

Word and Image - W. J. T. MITCHELL

Narrative - Wolfgang KEMP

Context - Paul MATTICK, Jr.

Meaning/Interpretation - Stephen BANN

Histories

Originality - Richard SHIFF

Appropriation - Robert NELSON

Art History - David CARRIER

Modernism - Charles HARRISON

Avant-Garde - Ann GIBSON

Primitive - Mark ANTLIFF, Patricia LEIGHTEN

Social Relations

Ritual - Suzanne Preston BLIER

Fetish - William PIETZ

Gaze - Margaret OLIN

Gender - Whitney DAVIS

Societies

Modes of Production - Terry SMITH

Commodity - Paul WOOD

Collecting/Museum - Donald PREZIOSI

Value - Joseph Leo KOERNER

Postmodernism/Postcolonism - Homi K. BHABHA

Afterword: Figuration - Richard SHIFF

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