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"Melville and Readings have done a superb job, not only in their choice of essays, but in their elaborate and highly ambitious introduction. It is the best assessment that I know of the current state of contemporary art history and criticism, the most subtle analysis of the theoretical alternatives open to contemporary and future work in these disciplines."--Keith Moxey, Barnard College and Columbia University
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes on Contributors xvi
Part I
1. General Introduction / Stephen Melville and Bill Readings 3
Part II
2. Basic Concepts Of Art History / Stephen Melville 31
3. Beholding Art History: Vision, Place and Power / Griselda Pollock 38
4. Past Looking / Michael Ann Holly 67
5. A Discourse (With Shape of Reason Missing) / John Tagg 90
6. The Aesthetics of Post-History: A German Perspective / Irit Rogoff 115
Part III
7. How Oblivious is Art? Kitsch and the Semiotician / Bill Readings 143
8. Reading the Gaze: The Construction of Gender in 'Rembrandt' / Mieke Bal 147
9. Philostratus and the Imaginary Museum / Norman Bryson 174
10. Topic and Figures of Enunciation: Is it Myself that I Paint / Louis Marlin 195
11. Armour Fou / Hal Foster 215
Part IV
12. The Pen and the Eye: The Politics of the Gazing Body / Francoise Lucbert 251
13. Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in
Caleb Williams / John Bender 256
14. The Visibility of Visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Sitting of the Viewer / Peter de Bolla 282
15. B/G / Thomas Crow 296
Part V
16. Vision Procured / Bennet Schaber 317
17. In the Master's Bedroom / Rosalind Krauss 326
18. Photo-unrealism: The Contribution of the Camera to the Crisis of Ocularcentrism / Martin Jay 344
19. Chance Encounters:
Flaneur and
Detraquee in Breton's
Nadja / Victor Burgin 361
Index 373
About the author
Stephen Melville is Associate Professor of History of Art at Ohio State University.
Bill Readings was Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Montréal at the time of his death in 1994.
