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

Contributor(s): Nelson, Robert S, 1947- | Shiff, RichardMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 519 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0226571661 (cloth); 9780226571669 (cloth); 0226571688 (paper); 9780226571683 (paper)Subject(s): Art -- Historiography -- Terminology | English language -- Terms and phrasesDDC classification: 701/.4 LOC classification: N34 | .C75 2003Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Table of contents

Contents:

List of illustrations -- Mediation / Robert S. Nelson -- At the place of a foreword : someone looking, reading, and writing / Robert S. Nelson -- Operations -- Representation / David Summers ; Sign / Alex Potts ; Simulacrum / Michael Camille -- Communications -- Word and image / W.J.T. Mitchell ; Narrative / Wolfgang Kemp ; Performance / Kristine Stiles ; Style / Jas Elsner ; Context / Paul Mattick, Jr. / Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann -- Histories -- Originality / Richard Shiff ; Appropriation / Robert S. Nelson ; Art history / David Carrier ; Modernism / Charles Harrison ; Avant-garde / Ann Gibson ; Primitive / Mark Antliff & Patricia Leighten ; Memory/monument / James E. Young -- Social relations -- Body / Amelia Jones ; Beauty / Ivan Gaskell ; Ugliness / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer ; Ritual / Suzanne P. Blier ; Fetish / William Pietz ; Gaze / Margaret Olin ; Gender / Whitney Davis ; Identity / Richard Meyer -- Societies -- Production / Terry Smith ; Commodity / Paul Wood ; Collecting/museums / Donald Preziosi ; Value / Joseph L. Koerner & Lisbet Rausing ; Postmodernism/postcolonialism / Homi K. Bhabha ; Visual culture/visual studies / James D. Herbert ; Social history of art / Craig Clunas ; Afterword : Figuration / Richard Shiff.

Summary: Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, Critical terms for art history is both an exposition and a demonstration of contested terms from the current art historical vocabulary. In individual essays, scholars examine the history and use of these terms by grounding their discussions in single works of art, reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are seeing them employed. In its wide representation of contemporary discourse, this book is a comprehensive effort to map historical and theoretical debates over the visual environment.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Female Library	N34 .C75 2003 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	1	Available	STACKS		51952000098492

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, Critical terms for art history is both an exposition and a demonstration of contested terms from the current art historical vocabulary. In individual essays, scholars examine the history and use of these terms by grounding their discussions in single works of art, reading each work through current debates and methods. This instructive combination of theory and practice allows readers to examine the terms as they are seeing them employed. In its wide representation of contemporary discourse, this book is a comprehensive effort to map historical and theoretical debates over the visual environment.

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