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Author:   Donald Preziosi (Emeritus Prof of Art History and Critical Theory, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   1.408kg
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9780199229840

ISBN 10:   0199229848
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   26 February 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Donald Preziosi: Introduction to the New Edition Donald Preziosi: Art History: Making the Visible Legible 1. Art as History Introduction Giorgio Vasari: Preface to Part III of 'The Lives' Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture Whitney Davis: Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History Michael Baxandall: Patterns of Intention 2. Aesthetics Introduction Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment? G.W.F. Hegel: Philosophy of Fine Art D. N. Rodowick: Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic Wilhelm Pietz: Fetish 3. Form, Content, and Style Introduction Heinrich Wölfflin: Principles of Art History Ernst Gombrich: Style David Summers: 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description David Summers: 'Style' 4. Anthropology and/or Art History Introduction Alois Riegl: Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman 'Kunstwollen' Aby Warburg: Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America Edgar Wind: Warburg's Concept of 'Kunstwissenschaft' and its Meaning for Aesthetics Claire Farago: Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art History 5. Mechanisms of Meaning Introduction Erwin Panofsky: Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art Hubert Damisch: Semiotics and Iconography Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson: Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Contexts and Senders Stephen Bann: Meaning/Interpretation 6. The Limits of Interpretation Introduction Stephen Melville: The Temptation of New Perspectives Martin Heidegger: The Origin of the Work of Art Meyer Schapiro: The Still Life as a Personal Object - a Note on Heidegger and van Gogh Jacques Derrida: Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure] 7. Authorship and Identity Introduction Michel Foucault: What is an Author? Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Mary Kelly: Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism Judith Butler: Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Rey Chow: Postmodern Automatons Amelia Jones: 'Every Man Knows How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics Jennifer Doyle: Queer Wallpaper 8. Globalization and its Discontents Introduction Timothy Mitchell: Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order Carol Duncan: The Museum as Ritual Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (Third Version) Satya Mohanty: Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progessive Politics Marquard Smith: Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice Maria Fernandez: 'Life-Like': Historicizing Process in Digital Art Donald Preziosi: Epilogue: The Art of Art History Coda: Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today

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Inspires productive debate and contemplation. What makes this anthology more than an arresting assemblage is the author's critical stance toward what he has wrought. Robert S. Nelson, Yale * Robert S. Nelson, Yale * Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available * Norman Bryson, Havard University * Review from previous edition vivid and inspiring... a flamboyant book * Johanne Lamoureux, University of Montreal *

<br> Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available. --Professor Norman Bryson, University of San Diego<br> What makes this anthology more than an arresting assemblage is the author's critical stance towards what he has wrought. --Professor Robert S. Nelson, Yale University<br> Vivid and inspiring...a flamboyant book. --Professor Johanne Lamoureux, University of Montreal<br>

Author Information

Author of a dozen books on art, architecture, museology, and critical and cultural theory, Donald Preziosi received his doctorate in art history from Harvard and has been a professor of art history at Yale, MIT, UCLA, and Oxford, where he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art in 2000-2001. He is a member of the History Faculty at Oxford University and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA. In 2005-2006 he was an Andrew Mellon Foundation Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Fellow and in 2007 a MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently working on a study of the complex relations between art and religion in the Western tradition.

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