"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in
question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain." But
questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired
increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in
critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically
transformed the discipline. The first edition of "Critical Terms
for Art History" both mapped and contributed to those
transformations, offering a spirited reassessment of the field's
methods and terminology.
Art history as a field has kept pace with debates over
globalization and other social and political issues in recent
years, making a second edition of this book not just timely, but
crucial. Like its predecessor, this new edition consists of essays
that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art,
from "sign" to "meaning," "ritual" to "commodity." Each essay
explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the
term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive
framework for a specific work of art. For example, Richard Shiff
discusses "Originality" in Vija Celmins's "To Fix the Image in
Memory," a work made of eleven pairs of stones, each consisting of
one "original" stone and one painted bronze replica.
In addition to the twenty-two original essays, this edition
includes nine new ones--"performance," "style," "memory/monument,"
"body," "beauty," "ugliness," "identity," "visual culture/visual
studies," and "social history of art"--as well as new introductory
material. All help expand the book's scope while retaining its
central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical issues in art
history and making that discussion accessible to both beginning
students and senior scholars.
Contributors: Mark Antliff, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Stephen
Bann, Homi K. Bhabha, Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Camille, David
Carrier, Craig Clunas, Whitney Davis, Jas Elsner, Ivan Gaskell, Ann
Gibson, Charles Harrison, James D. Herbert, Amelia Jones, Wolfgang
Kemp, Joseph Leo Koerner, Patricia Leighten, Paul Mattick Jr.,
Richard Meyer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin,
William Pietz, Alex Potts, Donald Preziosi, Lisbet Rausing, Richard
Shiff, Terry Smith, Kristine Stiles, David Summers, Paul Wood,
James E. Young
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