Writing art history
Subtitle: disciplinary departures
By: Margaret Iversen and Stephen Melville.
Contributors: Melville, Stephen W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226388250; 9780226388267
Subjects: Art -- Historiography; Art -- History -- Philosophy
Description: Since art history is having a major identity crisis as it struggles to adapt to contemporary global and mass media culture, this book intervenes in the struggle by laying bare the troublesome assumptions and presumptions at the field's foundations in a series of essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's the matter with methodology?; title: Historical distance (bridging and spanning); title: On the limits of interpretation: Dürer's Melencolia I; title: What the formalist knows; title: The spectator: Riegl, Steinberg, and Morris; title: The gaze in perspective: Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Damisch; title: Seeing and reading: Lyotard, Barthes, Schapiro; title: Plasticity: the Hegelian writing of art; title: Curriculum.