A companion to art theory /
edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde.
- Oxford : Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
- xix, 529 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 5 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tradition and the academy. Introduction: Alberti and the formation of modern art theory / Classical concept of minesis / Medieval art theory / Neoplatonist aesthetics / Renaissance art theories / Touch, tactility, and the reception of sculpture in early modern Italy / Spiritual exercises of Leonardo da Vinci / Academic theory,1550-1800 / Rhetorical categories in the academy / Picturesque and its development / Around modernism. Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel / E.H. Gombrich and the tradition of Hegel / German romanticism and French aesthetic theory / Expression : natural, personal, pictorial / Reading artists' words / Nietzsche and the artist / Wittgenstein, description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cézanne) / Modernism and the idea of the avant-garde / On the intention of modern(ist) art / Anti-art and the concept of art / Marcel Duchamp's readymades and anti-aesthetic reflex / Critical theory and postmodernism. Marxism and critical art history / Walter Benjamin and art theory / Bakhtin and the visual arts / Peirce's visuality and the semiotics of art / Conceptual art / Barthes on art / Foucault and art / Derrida and the Parergon / What consciousness forgets : Lyotard's concept of the sublime / Deleuze on Francis Bacon / Feminisms and art theory / Psycho-phallus (qu'est-ce que c'est?) / Interpretation and the institution of art. Rules of representation / Gombrich and psychology / Hermeneutics and art theory / Reciprocity and reception theory / Paradox of creative interpretation in art / Interdisciplinarity and visual culture / Against curatorial imperialism : Merleau-Ponty and the historicity of art / Institutional theory of art : theory and antitheory / Carolyn Wilde -- Göran Sörbom ; Hugh Bredin ; Suzanne Stern-Gillet ; Francois Quiviger ; Geraldine A. Johnson ; Robert Williams ; Paul Duro ; Caroline van Eck ; Andrew Ballantyne -- Jason Gaiger ; David Summers ; Wendy S. Mercer ; Richard Shiff ; Richard Hobbs ; Michael White ; Paul Smith ; Paul Wood ; Fred Orton ; Paul N. Humble ; David Hopkins -- David Craven ; Howard Caygill ; Deborah J. Haynes ; Michael Leja ; Charles Harrison ; Margaret Iversen ; Roy Boyne ; Robin Marriner ; Renée van de Vall ; Ian Heywood ; Marsha Meskimmon ; Mignon Nixon -- John Willats ; Richard Woodfield ; Nicholas Davey ; Michael Ann Holly ; Carl Hausman ; Charlotte Klonk ; Paul Crowther ; Garry L. Hagberg. Part. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
0631207627
2003277384
GBA2-X9391
Art--Philosophy--History.
Art criticism--History.
Aesthetics.
N61 / . C58 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tradition and the academy. Introduction: Alberti and the formation of modern art theory / Classical concept of minesis / Medieval art theory / Neoplatonist aesthetics / Renaissance art theories / Touch, tactility, and the reception of sculpture in early modern Italy / Spiritual exercises of Leonardo da Vinci / Academic theory,1550-1800 / Rhetorical categories in the academy / Picturesque and its development / Around modernism. Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel / E.H. Gombrich and the tradition of Hegel / German romanticism and French aesthetic theory / Expression : natural, personal, pictorial / Reading artists' words / Nietzsche and the artist / Wittgenstein, description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cézanne) / Modernism and the idea of the avant-garde / On the intention of modern(ist) art / Anti-art and the concept of art / Marcel Duchamp's readymades and anti-aesthetic reflex / Critical theory and postmodernism. Marxism and critical art history / Walter Benjamin and art theory / Bakhtin and the visual arts / Peirce's visuality and the semiotics of art / Conceptual art / Barthes on art / Foucault and art / Derrida and the Parergon / What consciousness forgets : Lyotard's concept of the sublime / Deleuze on Francis Bacon / Feminisms and art theory / Psycho-phallus (qu'est-ce que c'est?) / Interpretation and the institution of art. Rules of representation / Gombrich and psychology / Hermeneutics and art theory / Reciprocity and reception theory / Paradox of creative interpretation in art / Interdisciplinarity and visual culture / Against curatorial imperialism : Merleau-Ponty and the historicity of art / Institutional theory of art : theory and antitheory / Carolyn Wilde -- Göran Sörbom ; Hugh Bredin ; Suzanne Stern-Gillet ; Francois Quiviger ; Geraldine A. Johnson ; Robert Williams ; Paul Duro ; Caroline van Eck ; Andrew Ballantyne -- Jason Gaiger ; David Summers ; Wendy S. Mercer ; Richard Shiff ; Richard Hobbs ; Michael White ; Paul Smith ; Paul Wood ; Fred Orton ; Paul N. Humble ; David Hopkins -- David Craven ; Howard Caygill ; Deborah J. Haynes ; Michael Leja ; Charles Harrison ; Margaret Iversen ; Roy Boyne ; Robin Marriner ; Renée van de Vall ; Ian Heywood ; Marsha Meskimmon ; Mignon Nixon -- John Willats ; Richard Woodfield ; Nicholas Davey ; Michael Ann Holly ; Carl Hausman ; Charlotte Klonk ; Paul Crowther ; Garry L. Hagberg. Part. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
0631207627
2003277384
GBA2-X9391
Art--Philosophy--History.
Art criticism--History.
Aesthetics.
N61 / . C58 2002