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Companion to Art Theory, A


Companion to Art Theory, A

Hardback by Smith, Paul (University of Warwick); Wilde, Carolyn (University of Bristol)

Companion to Art Theory, A

£171.95

ISBN:
9780631207627
Publication Date:
5 Jul 2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
552 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Companion to Art Theory, A

Description

The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.

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

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