The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780813344508 | 0813344506
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books
Pub. Date: 12/8/2009
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Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been "read" in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a workrs"s perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what itrs"s made of). The methodologies discussed here-formal analys... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| What Is Art? | p. 3 |
| Formalism and Style | p. 21 |
| Iconography | p. 43 |
| Contextual Approaches I: Marxism, Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racial Iconography | p. 65 |
| Contextual Approaches II: Feminism and Gender | p. 97 |
| Biography and Autobiography | p. 125 |
| Semiotics I: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism | ... MOREp. 159 |
| Semiotics II: Deconstruction | p. 193 |
| Psychoanalysis I: Freud | p. 213 |
| Psychoanalysis II: Winnicott and Lacan | p. 235 |
| Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Roger Fry and Roland Barthes | p. 249 |
| Epilogue: Some Methodologies Applied to Titian's Rape of Lucrezia | p. 259 |
| Bibliography of Works Cited | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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Laurie Schneider Adams received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is professor of art history at John Jay College, CUNY. Her books include A History of Western Art and Italian Renaissance Art.
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