Description
Book SynopsisThis work explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought from the Renaissance onwards.
Trade Review"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime." Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute
Table of ContentsNotes 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.
