The art of art history
Subtitle: a critical anthology
By: edited by Donald Preziosi.
Contributors: Preziosi, Donald, 1941-
Edition: New ed.
Series: Oxford history of art
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9780199229840
Subjects: Art -- Historiography
Notes: Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 510-565) and index.
Table of contents: title: Art as history. Lives of the painters, sculptors, and architects / Giorgio Vasari; title: Reflections on the imitation of Greek works in painting and sculpture / Johann Joachim Winckelmann; title: Winckelmann divided: mourning the death of art history / Whitney Davis; title: Patterns of intention / Michael Baxandall; title: Aesthetics. The critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant; title: Philosophy of fine art / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; title: Impure mimesis, or the ends of the aesthetic / D. N. Rodowick; title: Fetish / William Pietz; title: Form, content, style. Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin; title: Style /  Ernst Gombrich; title: Form, nineteenth-century metaphysics, and the problem of art historical description / David Summers; title: Style / David Summers; title: Anthropology and/as art history.  Leading characteristics of the late Roman Kunstwollen / Alois Riegl; title: Images from the region of the Pueblo Indians of North America / Aby Warburg; title: Warburg's concept of kulturwissenschaft and its meaning for aesthetics / Edgar Wind; title: Silent moves: on excluding the ethnographic subject of discourse of art history / Claire Farago; title: Mechanisms of meaning. Iconography and iconology: an introduction to the study of the renaissance art / Erwin Panofsky; title: Semiotics and iconography / Hubert Damisch; title: Semiotics and art history: a discussion of context and senders / Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson; title: Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann; title: Deconstruction and the limits to interpretation. The temptation of new perspectives /  Stephen Melville; title: The origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger; title: The still life as a personal object: a note on Heidegger and Van Gogh / Meyer Schapiro; title: Restitutions of the truth in pointing [pointure] / Jacques Derrida; title: Authorship and Identity. What is an author? / Michel Foucault; title: The discourse of others: feminists and postmodernism / Craig Owens; title: Re-viewing modernist  criticism / Mary Kelly; title: Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler; title: Postmodern automatons / Rey Chow; title: Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure: beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones; title: Queer wallpaper / Jennifer Doyle; title: Globalization and its discontents. Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell; title: The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan; title: The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walter Benjamin; title: Can our values be objective? on ethics, aesthetics and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty; title: Visual culture studies: questions of history, theory, and practice / Marquard Smith; title: Life-like: historicizing process and responsiveness in digital art / María Fernández; title: Epilogue: the art of art history / Donald Preziosi; title: Plato's dilemma and the tasks of the art historian today.