Title: The methodologies of art : an introduction /
Authors: Adams, Laurie.
Publisher: IconEditions,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Art Historiography; Art Methodology.
Abstract: This book surveys the main methodologies used in artistic analysis: formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, semiotics (structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction), and psychoanalysis. Various works of art are considered from the different methodologies discussed. There are 70 black-and-white illustrations integrated with the text, 4 plates in color, notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Contents: What is art? -- Formalism and style -- Iconography -- Contextual approaches I : Marxism -- Contextual approaches II : feminism -- Biography and autobiography -- Semiotics I : structuralism and post-structuralism -- Semiotics II : deconstruction -- Psychoanalysis I : Freud -- Psychoanalysis II : Winnicott and Lacan -- Aesthetics and psychoanalysis : Roger Fry and Roland Barthes.