Full Description
This volume presents definitive essays by internationally renowned experts and innovative younger scholars on the wide range of approaches used by art historians past and present to analyze images, objects, buildings, and performances.
It provides critical considerations of key methodologies, from formalism and iconography to social history and psychoanalytic approaches. It foregrounds fundamental concepts, from the artist, the beholder, and the frame to museums, canons, and periodization. At the same time, it broadens art itself as a category by considering photographs, digital media, performance, architecture, and visual culture more generally. The chapters also explore new approaches and new points of view that have expanded Art History's remit in exciting ways in recent years by addressing growing interest in race, ethnicity, and the legacies of colonialism; gender identity and sexuality; ecocritical approaches to making and consuming art; materiality and the senses; digitally informed methods; the nascent field of Disability Studies; and scientific research on vision and on the technical analysis of works of art.
This comprehensive collection will be indispensable for students and scholars of Art History, as well as for readers coming from other disciplines who are seeking fresh approaches to visual and material culture.
Contents
Introduction: Art History Then...and Now Part I: The Objects of Art History 1. Material: Engaging with the Stuff of Art 2. Architecture: Constructing Global Histories 3. Photography: Between Discipline and Indiscipline 4. New Media: Time Comes Again 5. Performance: Art is Alive 6. Reproductions: Art History's Images 7. Frame: Border, Boundary, Limit 8. Technical Studies: Where Science meets Art Part II: Art Historical Concepts 9. Artist: Functions and Forms of History and Subjectivity 10. Beholder: Absorption, Objectification, and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity 11. Museum: When is a Museum? 12. Canon: A Chinese Laocoön and the Process of Canon Formation 13. Periodization: Must We Divide (Art) History into Periods? 14. Modernism: Critical Genealogies and Contemporary Possibilities 15. Orientalism: Post-Colonialism, Time, and the Image 16. Visual Culture: Not Just Another Name for Art History 17. The Senses: The Sensory Revolution and Art History Part III: Approaches to Art History 18. Connoisseurship: Invention, Abandonment, Reinvention 19. Form and Formalism: Problematic and Inevitable 20. Iconology: Method and Movement 21. Social Art History: The Doing and Un-Doing of a Discipline 22. Psychoanalysis: The Art of Trauma 23. Gender/Sexuality: Sexual Difference and the Structure of Art (History) 24. Race/Ethnicity: The Practices of Difference and the Politics of Marginality in Art History 25. Global Art History: Post-Colonial Origins, De-Colonial Futures 26. Anthropology: Playing with Dolls - Art, Effigy, Agency 27. Environmental Approaches: Expanded Perspectives, Differential Positions 28. Disability Studies: Institutional Critique and Disability Art as an Heir to Art's History 29. Neuroaesthetics: Is it just Brains, Beauty, and Babel? 30. Digital Approaches: Do We Really Need Digital Art History?
