The art of art history

Beschrijving

Onderzoek naar de grondbeginselen van de kunstgeschiedenis. De anthologie functioneert als een gids om de historigrafie van de kunstgeschiedenis te begrijpen door het lezen van de meest invloedrijke teksten uit de geschiedenis van het vak. - What is art history? Why, how and where did it originate, and how have its aims and methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century,debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is, and might be. This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through a critical reading of the field''s most innovative and influential texts over the past two centuries. Each section focuses on a key issue: aesthetics, style, history as an art, iconography and semiology, gender, modernity and postmodernity, deconstruction and museology