| Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies Contributor(s): Holly, Michael Ann (Editor), Moxey, Keith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0300097891 ISBN-13: 9780300097894 Publisher: Clark Art Institute OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 Annotation: Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen distinguished scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through their contemporary practices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 701.17 |
| LCCN: 2002021787 |
| Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.88" W x 9.8" (1.70 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen distinguished scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through their contemporary practices. |
