Art History A Critical Introduction to Its

This book provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates.

Michael Hatt is Head of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. Charlotte Klonk is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Warwick.

List of illustrations

ix

Acknowledgements

xii

1 Introduction

PART ONE

2 A variety of interpretations: a preview

11

(10)

3 Hegel and the birth of art history

21

(19)

Hegel's philosophy of art

23

(2)

Hegel's art history

25

(12)

Critical appraisal

37

(2)

Bibliography

39

(1)

4 Connoisseurship

40

(25)

Style, manner and artistic character: Karl Friedrich von Rumohr

42

(3)

Rumohr's art history

45

(3)

Giovanni Morelli

48

(2)

Morelli's natural history of art

50

(6)

Bernard Berenson

56

(2)

Berenson's method

58

(2)

Critical appraisal

60

(3)

Bibliography

63

(2)

5 Formalism: Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl

65

(31)

Formalism

66

(5)

Heinrich WOlfflin

71

(5)

Wölfflin's art history

76

(9)

Alois Riegl 8o

Riegl's art history

85

(5)

Critical appraisal

90

(5)

Bibliography

95

(1)

6 Iconography—iconology: Erwin Panofsky

96

(24)

Panofsky's theoretical framework

100

(9)

Panofsky's method in action io

o6

Melancholia I

109

(5)

Critical appraisal

114

(4)

Bibliography

118

(2)

7 Marxism and the social history of art

120

(25)

Marxism

122

(6)

Marxist art history

128

(6)

Social art history

134

(4)

Critical appraisal

138

(3)

Bibliography

141

(4)

PART TWO

8 Feminism

145

(29)

Setting the agenda: Nochlin, Parker and Pollock

150

(7)

Michel Foucault: discourse and power

157

(6)

Gay, lesbian, queer

163

(6)

Critical appraisal

169

(3)

Bibliography

172

(2)

9 Psychoanalysis

174

(26)

Freud on Leonardo

179

(6)

Looking and Lacanian analysis

185

(9)

Critical appraisal

194

(4)

Bibliography

198

(2)

10 Semiotics

200

(23)

Saussure

201

(97)

Icon, index, symbol: Peirce

298

Semiotics in practice

212

(6)

Critical appraisal

218

(3)

Bibliography

221

(2)

11 Postcolonialism

223

(18)

Edward Said and Orientalism

225

(5)

Hybridity

230

(6)

Critical appraisal

236

(3)

Bibliography

239

(2)

12 Conclusion

241

(4)

Index

245

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