The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)

"Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available."--Professor Norman Bryson, University of San Diego. "What makes this anthology more than an.
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How to Write a Thesis Umberto Eco. The English Handbook William Whitla. The Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari. Rattling Spears Ian McLean. The Whole Story Richard Cork.

Art in Renaissance Italy Evelyn Welch. The Everyday Stephen Johnstone.

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Learning to Look at Paintings Mary Acton. The Norton Shakespeare Stephen Greenblatt. Bestsellers in Art Theory. The Artist's Way Julia Cameron. Interaction of Color Josef Albers. Ways of Seeing John Berger. Alice Rawsthorn Alice Rawsthorn.

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How to Sleep Matthew Fuller. Akademie X Maria Lind.

Still Looking John Updike. Great Works Michael Glover.

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Short History of the Shadow Victor Stoichita. Robert Smithson Robert Smithson.

Everyday Sketching and Drawing S. Perspective Made Easy Ernest Norling. Ways of Curating Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Understanding a Photograph John Berger. The Aesthetics of Mimesis Stephen Halliwell. His own concluding essay is an important and original contribution to scholarship in the field. From the pre-publication reviews: The texts that Donald Preziosi has brought together provide something far more challenging: In place of the consoling tale of intellectualprogress, the collection defamiliarizes the whole field, and opens up a space for radical reflection on its basic procedures and assumptions.

Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available. His bouquet contains representatives from the discipline''s two-hundred year history, arranged in standard and innovative methodological categories. Within each, the readings selected providestimulating congruencies and contradictions that will inspire productive debate and contemplation.

But what makes this anthology more than an arresting assemblage is the author''s critical stance toward what he has wrought. His introduction and concluding chapter write around and under the subjectspresented, emphasizing the ''art'' of art history, its kinship with modernity''s post-Enlightenment project, and its collaboration with the rise of nationalism. Thus the discipline''s past is probed and questioned and made relevant for its present and future. The whole thereby addresses, withouthealing or concealing, the disciplinary ruptures of modernism.

The book might also have explored further nature of art history''s history within the emergent discourse of post-colonialism and the globalization of culture Yet the many new perspectives it does offer help to re-present the discipline for its readers, students, teachers, and curators, for other areas of humanistic inquiry, which are being subject to similar critiques, and for artists and the larger art community, for whom history, narrative, and anaccounting of art''s past have once again become vital issues'' Professor Robert S.

Nelson, Professor of Art History and Chair, Committee for the History of Culture, University of Chicago ''Rather than focusing on its Vasarian moment or on the later academic institutionalization of art history in the 19th and 20th centuries, Donald Preziosi, in The Art of Art History, constructs a reading of this hegemonic and reductive practice of making ''the visible legible'' as one that isinextricably tied to the museographic paradigm of late 18th and early 19th centuries.

This shift, he sees as equivalent in importance to the brought by the ''invention'' of perspective.

But the author goes further than to underline the implication of art history with the premises of modernity, hemakes a strong case, in a vivid and inspiring prose, for a tighter equation between art history and modernity: Why, how and where did it originate, and how have its aims and methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified.

Historians, philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be. This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: From the pre-publication reviews: The texts that Donald Preziosi has brought together provide something far more challenging: In place of the consoling tale of intellectual progress, the collection defamiliarizes the whole field, and opens up a space for radical reflection on its basic procedures and assumptions.

Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available. His bouquet contains representatives from the discipline's two-hundred year history, arranged in standard and innovative methodological categories.

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Within each, the readings selected provide stimulating congruencies and contradictions that will inspire productive debate and contemplation. But what makes this anthology more than an arresting assemblage is the author's critical stance toward what he has wrought. His introduction and concluding chapter write around and under the subjects presented, emphasizing the 'art' of art history, its kinship with modernity's post-Enlightenment project, and its collaboration with the rise of nationalism. Thus the discipline's past is probed and questioned and made relevant for its present and future.

The whole thereby addresses, without healing or concealing, the disciplinary ruptures of modernism.