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A companion to art theory
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- Creator
- edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xix, 529 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1405165456, 9780470998434, 1280284293, 9780631207627, 9781405165457, 058547091X, 9780470998427, 9780585470917, 0631207627, 9781782684244, 0470998423, 0470998431, 9781280284298, 9786610284290, 1782684247
- OCLC
- ocm49552239, ocn214281268, ocm53222179
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. I: Tradition and the academy -- Introduction: Alberti and the formation of modern art theory / Carolyn Wilde -- Classical concept of minesis / Göran Sörbom -- Medieval art theory / Hugh Bredin -- Neoplatonist aesthetics / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Renaissance art theories / Francois Quiviger -- Touch, tactility, and the reception of sculpture in early modern Italy / Geraldine A. Johnson -- Spiritual exercises of Leonardo da Vinci / Robert Williams -- Academic theory 1550-1800 / Paul Duro -- Rhetorical categories in the academy / Caroline van Eck -- Picturesque and its development / Andrew Ballantyne -- Pt. II: Around modernism -- Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel / Jason Gaiger -- E. H. Gombrich and the tradition of Hegel / David Summers -- German romanticism and French aesthetic theory / Wendy S. Mercer -- Expression: natural, personal, pictorial / Richard Shiff -- Reading artists' words / Richard Hobbs -- Nietzsche and the artist / Michael White -- Wittgenstein, description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cézanne) / Paul Smith -- Modernism and the idea of the avant-garde / Paul Wood -- On the intention of modern(ist) art / Fred Orton -- Anti-art and the concept of art / Paul N. Humble -- Marcel Duchamp's readymades and anti-aesthetic reflex / David Hopkins -- Pt. III: Critical theory and postmodernism -- Marxism and critical art history / David Craven -- Walter Benjamin and art theory / Howard Caygill -- Bakhtin and the visual arts / Deborah J. Haynes -- Peirce's visuality and the semiotics of art / Michael Leja -- Conceptual art / Charles Harrison -- Barthes on art / Margaret Iversen -- Foucault and art / Roy Boyne -- Derrida and the Parergon / Robin Marriner -- What consciousness forgets: Lyotard's concept of the sublime / Renée van de Vall -- Deleuze on Francis Bacon / Ian Heywood -- Feminisms and art theory / Marsha Meskimmon -- Psycho-phallus (qu'est-ce que c'est?) / Mignon Nixon -- Pt. IV: Interpretation and the institution of art -- Rules of representation / John Willats -- Gombrich and psychology / Richard Woodfield -- Hermeneutics and art theory / Nicholas Davey -- Reciprocity and reception theory / Michael Ann Holly -- Paradox of creative interpretation in art / Carl Hausman -- Interdisciplinarity and visual culture / Charlotte Klonk -- Against curatorial imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the historicity of art / Paul Crowther -- Institutional theory of art: theory and antitheory / Garry L. Hagberg