What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its 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 critical reading of the field>'s most
innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries.
Each section focuses on a key issue: art as history; aesthetics; form, content, and style; anthropology; meaning and interpretation; authorship and identity; and the phenomenon of globalization. More than thirty
readings from writers as diverse as Winckelmann, Kant, Mary Kelly, and Michel Foucault are brought together, with editorial introductions to each topic providing background information, bibliographies, and critical elucidations of the issues at stake.
This updated and expanded edition
contains sixteen newly included extracts from key thinkers in the history of art, from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty; a new section on globalization; and also a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today.
Donald Preziosi: Introduction to the New Edition
Donald Preziosi: Art History: Making the Visible Legible
1. Art as History
Introduction
Giorgio Vasari: Preface to Part III of 'The Lives'
Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in
Painting and Sculpture
Whitney Davis: Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History
Michael Baxandall: Patterns of Intention
2. Aesthetics
Introduction
Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?
G.W.F. Hegel: Philosophy of Fine Art
D. N. Rodowick: Impure
Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic
Wilhelm Pietz: Fetish
3. Form, Content, and Style
Introduction
Heinrich Wölfflin: Principles of Art History
Ernst Gombrich: Style
David Summers: 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical
Description
David Summers: 'Style'
4. Anthropology and/or Art History
Introduction
Alois Riegl: Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman 'Kunstwollen'
Aby Warburg: Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America
Edgar Wind: Warburg's Concept of
'Kunstwissenschaft' and its Meaning for Aesthetics
Claire Farago: Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art History
5. Mechanisms of Meaning
Introduction
Erwin Panofsky: Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance
Art
Hubert Damisch: Semiotics and Iconography
Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson: Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Contexts and Senders
Stephen Bann: Meaning/Interpretation
6. The Limits of Interpretation
Introduction
Stephen Melville: The Temptation of New
Perspectives
Martin Heidegger: The Origin of the Work of Art
Meyer Schapiro: The Still Life as a Personal Object - a Note on Heidegger and van Gogh
Jacques Derrida: Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure]
7. Authorship and Identity
Introduction
Michel
Foucault: What is an Author?
Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
Mary Kelly: Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism
Judith Butler: Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Rey Chow: Postmodern Automatons
Amelia
Jones: 'Every Man Knows How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics
Jennifer Doyle: Queer Wallpaper
8. Globalization and its Discontents
Introduction
Timothy Mitchell: Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order
Carol Duncan: The Museum as
Ritual
Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (Third Version)
Satya Mohanty: Can Our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progessive Politics
Marquard Smith: Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice
Maria
Fernandez: 'Life-Like': Historicizing Process in Digital Art
Donald Preziosi: Epilogue: The Art of Art History
Coda: Plato's Dilemma and the Tasks of the Art Historian Today
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Author of a dozen books on art, architecture, museology, and critical and cultural theory, Donald Preziosi received his doctorate in art history from Harvard and has been a professor of art history at Yale, MIT, UCLA, and Oxford, where he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art in 2000-2001. He is
a member of the History Faculty at Oxford University and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA. In 2005-2006 he was an Andrew Mellon Foundation Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Fellow and in 2007 a MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently
working on a study of the complex relations between art and religion in the Western tradition.
