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This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. Following an extensive introduction on the formation of modern art theory, the
Companion is organized chronologically so that readers can trace developments of visual art theory, from classical and medieval sources and modern conceptions of art as they have been theorized since the Renaissance, through to some current theoretical preoccupations.
In addition to outlining and describing various theoretical positions, the book's chapters articulate some assumptions that underpin them and raise more general questions about the nature of theorizing about art. In this way the
Companion provides both an introduction to main themes of Western art theory and a source for critical enquiry into the purposes, possibilities and limitations of theory in the context of artistic practice.
The work can also be used alongside the three
Art in Theory anthologies published by Blackwell, as a further art theory resource.
List of contents
Plates ix Notes on Contributors x Preface xvi Part I: Tradition and the Academy 1 Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory 3
Carolyn Wilde 1 The Classical Concept of Mimesis 19
Göran Sörbom 2 Medieval Art Theory 29
Hugh Bredin 3 Neoplatonist Aesthetics 40
Suzanne Stern-Gillet 4 Renaissance Art Theories 49
François Quiviger 5 Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy 61
Geraldine A. Johnson 6 The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci 75
Robert Williams 7 Academic Theory 1550-1800 88
Paul Duro 8 Rhetorical Categories in the Academy 104
Caroline van Eck 9 The Picturesque and its Development 116
Andrew Ballantyne Part II: Around Modernism 125 10 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel 127
Jason Gaiger 11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel 139
David Summers 12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory 150
Wendy S. Mercer 13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial 159
Richard Shiff 14 Reading Artists' Words 173
Richard Hobbs 15 Nietzsche and the Artist 183
Michael White 16 Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cezanne) 196
Paul Smith 17 Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde 215
Paul Wood 18 On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art 229
Fred Orton 19 Anti-Art and the Concept of Art 244
Paul N. Humble 20 Marcel Duchamp's Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex 253
David Hopkins Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism 265 21 Marxism and Critical Art History 267
David Craven 22 Walter Benjamin and Art Theory 286
Howard Caygill 23 Bakhtin and the Visual Arts 292
Deborah J. Haynes 24 Peirce's Visuality and the Semiotics of Art 303
Michael Leja 25 Conceptual Art 317
Charles Harrison 26 Barthes on Art 327
Margaret Iversen 27 Foucault and Art 337
Roy Boyne 28 Derrida and the Parergon 349
Robin Marriner 29 What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime 360
Renée van de Vall 30 Deleuze on Francis Bacon 370
Ian Heywood 31 Feminisms and Art Theory 380
Marsha Meskimmon 32 Psycho-Phallus (Qu'est-ce que c'est?) 397
Mignon Nixon Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art 409 33 The Rules of Representation 411
John Willats 34 Gombrich and Psychology 426
Richard Woodfield 35 Hermeneutics and Art Theory 436
Nicholas Davey 36 Reciprocity and Reception Theory 448
Michael Ann Holly 37 The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art 458
Carl Hausman 38 Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture 467
Charlotte Klonk 39 Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art 477
Paul Crowther 40 The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory 487
Garry L. Hagberg Index 505
About the author
Mariëlle S. Smith es escritora, coach de redacción, y editora. Vive en Chipre, desde donde organiza retiros privados para escritores, encuentra inspiración en cada rincón, y alimenta más gatos callejeros de los que puede contar.
Summary
* Provides a critical overview of Western visual art theory from a wide range of perspectives. * Helps students to pursue questions about the nature and ambitions of theory in the context of art. * Can be used alongside the three a Art in Theorya anthologies also published by Blackwell. .
