Contributor
Smith, Paul, 1956-
Imprint:Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
Descriptionxix, 529 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:Part. 1. Tradition and the academy. Introduction: Alberti and the formation of modern art theory / Carolyn Wilde -- Classical concept of minesis / Göran Sörbom ; Medieval art theory / Hugh Bredin ; Neoplatonist aesthetics / Suzanne Stern-Gillet ; Renaissance art theories / Francois Quiviger ; Touch, tactility, and the reception of sculpture in early modern Italy / Geraldine A. Johnson ; Spiritual exercises of Leonardo da Vinci / Robert Williams ; Academic theory,1550-1800 / Paul Duro ; Rhetorical categories in the academy / Caroline van Eck ; Picturesque and its development / Andrew Ballantyne -- pt. 2. Around modernism. Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel / Jason Gaiger ; E.H. Gombrich and the tradition of Hegel / David Summers ; German romanticism and French aesthetic theory / Wendy S. Mercer ; Expression : natural, personal, pictorial / Richard Shiff ; Reading artists' words / Richard Hobbs ; Nietzsche and the artist / Michael White ; Wittgenstein, description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cézanne) / Paul Smith ; Modernism and the idea of the avant-garde / Paul Wood ; On the intention of modern(ist) art / Fred Orton ; Anti-art and the concept of art / Paul N. Humble ; Marcel Duchamp's readymades and anti-aesthetic reflex / David Hopkins -- pt. 3. Critical theory and postmodernism. Marxism and critical art history / David Craven ; Walter Benjamin and art theory / Howard Caygill ; Bakhtin and the visual arts / Deborah J. Haynes ; Peirce's visuality and the semiotics of art / Michael Leja ; Conceptual art / Charles Harrison ; Barthes on art / Margaret Iversen ; Foucault and art / Roy Boyne ; Derrida and the Parergon / Robin Marriner ; What consciousness forgets : Lyotard's concept of the sublime / Renée van de Vall ; Deleuze on Francis Bacon / Ian Heywood ; Feminisms and art theory / Marsha Meskimmon ; Psycho-phallus (qu'est-ce que c'est?) / Mignon Nixon -- pt. 4. Interpretation and the institution
Note:of art. Rules of representation / John Willats ; Gombrich and psychology / Richard Woodfield ; Hermeneutics and art theory / Nicholas Davey ; Reciprocity and reception theory / Michael Ann Holly ; Paradox of creative interpretation in art / Carl Hausman ; Interdisciplinarity and visual culture / Charlotte Klonk ; Against curatorial imperialism : Merleau-Ponty and the historicity of art / Paul Crowther ; Institutional theory of art : theory and antitheory / Garry L. Hagberg.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
