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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143506903321

Titolo

A companion to art theory / / edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2002

ISBN

0-470-99842-3

1-78268-424-7

1-280-28429-3

9786610284290

0-470-99843-1

0-585-47091-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (552 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithPaul <1956->

WildeCarolyn <1945->

Disciplina

700.1

701

701.18

Soggetti

Art - Philosophy - History

Art criticism - History

Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory; 13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial; 14 Reading Artists' Words; 15 Nietzsche and the Artist; 16 Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on CeĢzanne); 17 Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde; 18 On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art; 19 Anti-Art and the Concept of Art; 20 Marcel Duchamp's Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex; Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism; 21 Marxism and Critical Art History; 22 Walter Benjamin and Art Theory; 23 Bakhtin and the Visual Arts

24 Peirce's Visuality and the Semiotics of Art25 Conceptual Art; 26 Barthes on Art; 27 Foucault and Art; 28 Derrida and the Parergon; 29 What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime; 30 Deleuze on Francis Bacon; 31 Feminisms and Art Theory; 32 Psycho-



Phallus (Qu'est-ce que c'est?); Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art; 33 The Rules of Representation; 34 Gombrich and Psychology; 35 Hermeneutics and Art Theory; 36 Reciprocity and Reception Theory; 37 The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art; 38 Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture

39 Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art40 The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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