Critical terms for art history / edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff.

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TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : London : University of Chicago Press, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0226571688 (PBK.)

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701.18 NEL

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701.18 NEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000287194

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"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain . But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of Critical Terms for Art History both mapped and contributed to those transformations, offering a spirited reassessment of the field's methods and terminology.

Art history as a field has kept pace with debates over globalization and other social and political issues in recent years, making a second edition of this book not just timely, but crucial. Like its predecessor, this new edition consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from sign to meaning , ritual to commodity . Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art. For example, Richard Shiff discusses "Originality" in Vija Celmins's To Fix the Image in Memory , a work made of eleven pairs of stones, each consisting of one "original" stone and one painted bronze replica.

In addition to the twenty-two original essays, this edition includes nine new ones-- performance , style , memory/monument , body , beauty , ugliness , identity , visual culture/visual studies , and social history of art --as well as new introductory material. All help expand the book's scope while retaining its central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical issues in art history and making that discussion accessible to both beginning students and senior scholars.

Contributors: Mark Antliff, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Stephen Bann, Homi K. Bhabha, Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Camille, David Carrier, Craig Clunas, Whitney Davis, Jas Elsner, Ivan Gaskell, Ann Gibson, Charles Harrison, James D. Herbert, Amelia Jones, Wolfgang Kemp, Joseph Leo Koerner, Patricia Leighten, Paul Mattick Jr., Richard Meyer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, William Pietz, Alex Potts, Donald Preziosi, Lisbet Rausing, Richard Shiff, Terry Smith, Kristine Stiles, David Summers, Paul Wood, James E. Young

Previous ed.: 1996.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations
Mediation
At the Place of a Foreword: Someone Looking, Reading, and Writing
Operations
1 Representation
2 Sign
3 Simulacrum
Communications
4 Word and Image
5 Narrative
6 Performance
7 Style
8 Context
9 Meaning/Interpretation
Histories
10 Originality
11 Appropriation
12 Art History
13 Modernism
14 Avant-Garde
15 Primitive
16 Memory/Monument
Social Relations
17 Body
18 Beauty
19 Ugliness
20 Ritual
21 Fetish
22 Gaze
23 Gender
24 Identity
Societies
25 Production
26 Commodity
27 Collecting/Museums
28 Value
29 Postmodernism/Postcolonialism
30 Visual Culture/Visual Studies
31 Social History of Art
Afterword: Figuration

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert S. Nelson is Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and History of Culture at the University of Chicago
Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas at Austin