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