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Art history : a critical introduction to its methods / Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk..

Art history : a critical introduction to its methods / Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk..
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ISBN 0719069599 (pbk.)
Name Hatt, Michael author
Title Art history : a critical introduction to its methods / Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk..
Published Manchester, [England] : Manchester University Press, 2006.
Description 250 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. A variety of interpretations : a preview -- 3. Hegel and the birth of art history -- 4. Connoisseurship -- 5. Formalism : Heinrich Wolfflin and Alois Riegl -- 6. Iconography - iconology : Erwin Panofsky -- 7. Marxism and the social history of art -- 8. Feminism -- 9. Psychoanalysis -- 10. Semiotics -- 11. Postcolonialism -- 12. Conclusion.
Summary The authors apply the different theories used in art history to one painting, Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon, and use this as a text for teaching. This provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within the subject and offers a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism by explaining the philosophical and political assumptions behind each approach, using examples. The reader also gains a sense of art history's own history as a discipline, from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to contemporary times.
Subjects Art criticism
Art -- History
Art -- History -- Methodology
Art -- Historiography
Added Names Klonk, Charlotte author
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