Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve
essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single
work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological
approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's "A
Bar at the Folies-Bergere, " each contributor applies to it a
different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the
newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and
semiotics. By demonstrating the ways that individual practitioners
actually apply the various methodological insights that inform
their research, "Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar"" serves as an
excellent introduction to critical methodology as well as a
provocative overview for those already familiar with the current
discourse of art history. In the process of gaining new insight
into Manet's work, and into the discourse of methodology, one
discovers that it is not only the individual painting but art
history itself that is under investigation. An introduction by
Richard Shiff sets the background with a brief history of Manet
scholarship and suggestions as to why today's accounts have taken
certain distinct directions. The contributors, selected to provide
a broad and balanced range of methodological approaches, include:
Carol Armstrong, Albert Boime, David Carrier, Kermit Champa,
Bradford R. Collins, Michael Paul Driskel, Jack Flam, Tag Gronberg,
James D. Herbert, John House, Steven Z. Levine, and Griselda
Pollock."
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