Art and Thought

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic consider the impact of the writings of key thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, on the way in which objects are perceived and understood and histories of art are constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured according to varying sets of philosophical frameworks. Engaging and provocative, Art and Thought presents an incisive analysis of the intellectual preoccupations that inform the complex narrative of our visual culture, and introduces the reader to the dynamic interface between philosophical reflections and art practices.

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism. She is series editor of New Interventions in Art History, Blackwell Companions to Art History, and Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. Her recent publications include The Metropolis and its Image (Blackwell, 1999), Re-presenting the Metropolis (2000), Reading Architectural History (2002), and Very Short Introduction to Art History (2003).

Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. She is author of Alois Reigl: Art History and Theory (1993) and Mary Kelly (with Homi Bhabha and Douglass Crimp, 1997). She has published several essays on psychoanalytic art theory, many of which will be collected in the forthcoming volume, Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Notes on Contributors

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Series Editor's Preface

xi

Editors' Introduction

1

(8)

Aristotle, Titian, and Tragic Painting

9

(19)

Thomas Puttfarken

Wax, Brick, and Bread: Apotheoses of Matter and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Painting

28

(23)

Jay Bernstein

Kant and the Aesthetic Imagination

51

(20)

Michael Podro

Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The Uses of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology in Art History

71

(20)

Amelia Jones

Art Works, Utterances, and Things

91

(20)

Alex Potts

Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the Problem of Minimalism

111

(18)

Jonathan Vickery

Does Are Think? How Can We Think the Feminine, Aesthetically?

129

(27)

Griselda Pollock

What was Postminimalism?

156

(18)

Stephen Melville

Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger Through Tate Modern

174

(23)

Diarmuid Costello

Eyes Wide Shut: Some Considerations on Thought and Art

197

(12)

Adrian Rifkin

Bibliography

209

(7)

Index

216

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