Art of Art History

Introduction to the New Edition ; Art History: Making the Visible Legible ; 1. ART AS HISTORY ; Introduction ; Preface to Part III of 'The Lives' ; Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture ; Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History ; Patterns of Intention ; 2. AESTHETICS ; Introduction ; What is Enlightenment? ; Philosophy of Fine Art ; Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic ; Fetish ; 3. FORM, CONTENT, AND STYLE ; Introduction ; Principles of Art History ; Style ; 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description ; 'Style' ; 4. ANTHROPOLOGY AND/OR ART HISTORY ; Introduction ; Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman 'Kunstwollen' ; Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America ; Warburg's Concept of 'Kunstwissenschaft' and its Meaning for Aesthetics ; Silent Moves: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art History ; 5. MECHANISMS OF MEANING ; Introduction ; Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art ; Semiotics and Iconography ; Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Contexts and Senders ; Meaning/Interpretation ; 6. THE LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION ; Introduction ; The Temptation of New Perspectives ; The Origin of the Work of Art ; The Still Life as a Personal Object - a Note on Heidegger and van Gogh ; Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure] ; 7. AUTHORSHIP AND IDENTITY ; Introduction ; What is an Author? ; The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism ; Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism ; Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory ; Postmodern Automatons ; 'Every Man Knows How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics ; Queer Wallpaper ; 8. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS ; Introduction ; Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order ; The Museum as Ritual ; The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility

Author of a dozen books on art, architecture, museology, and critical and cultural theory, Donald Preziosi received his doctorate in art history from Harvard and has been a professor of art history at Yale, MIT, UCLA, and Oxford, where he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art in 2000-2001. He is a member of the History Faculty at Oxford University and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at UCLA. In 2005-2006 he was an Andrew Mellon Foundation Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Fellow and in 2007 a MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently working on a study of the complex relations between art and religion in the Western tradition.

"Definitely the best introduction to art history currently available."--Professor Norman Bryson, University of San Diego

"What makes this anthology more than an arresting assemblage is the author's critical stance towards what he has wrought."--Professor Robert S. Nelson, Yale University

"Vivid and inspiring...a flamboyant book."--Professor Johanne Lamoureux, University of Montreal