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.
* Brings together newly commissioned essays that explore the
relationship between the discipline of art history and movements in
the history of western thought.
* Considers 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.
* Introduces the reader to the dynamic interface between
philosophical reflections and art practices.
* Part of the New Interventions in Art History series, which is
published in conjunction with the Association of Art
Historians.
İçerik tablosu
Notes on Contributors.
Series Editor’s Preface.
Editors Introduction.
1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas
Puttfarken).
2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in
seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay
Bernstein).
3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro).
4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty’s
phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones).
5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts).
6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism
(Jonathan Vickery).
7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda
Pollock).
8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville).
9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading
Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello).
10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin).
Bibliography.
Index.
Yazar hakkında
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.