Title & Author:

Art history and its methods : a critical anthology / selection and commentary by Eric Fernie.

Publication:

London : Phaidon Press Ltd., ©1995.

Description:

384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 369) and index.
Introduction: A History of Methods -- From Antiquity to the Renaissance: Piecemeal Beginnings -- The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Biographies -- The Eighteenth Century: Cultural History, and the Cycle -- The Nineteenth Century: Empiricism, Metaphysics and Cultural History -- The Early Twentieth Century: Responses to Modernism -- The Mid-Twentieth Century: Cumulative Variety -- The Late Twentieth Century: New Art Histories -- The Present: Versatility and Potential -- The Lives of the Artists, 1568 / Giorgio Vasari -- The Painter's Book, 1604 / Karel van Mander -- Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 1672 / Giovanni Bellori -- The History of Ancient Art, 1764 / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Of German Architecture, 1772 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Reflections on History, 1872 / Jacob Burckhardt -- 'The Revival of Architecture', 1888 / William Morris -- Italian Painters, 1890 / Giovanni Morelli -- Late Roman Art Industry, 1901 / Alois Riegl -- Principles of Art History, 1915 / Heinrich Wolfflin -- Principles of Architectural History, 1914 / Paul Frankl -- Vision and Design, 1920 / Roger Fry -- The Life of Forms in Art, 1934 / Henri Focillon -- 'The Development of Abstract Art', 1936 / Alfred H. Barr -- 'The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline', 1940 / Erwin Panofsky -- An Outline of European Architecture, 1943 / Nikolaus Pevsner -- The Philosophy of Art History, 1959 / Arnold Hauser -- 'Against Interpretation', 1964 / Susan Sontag -- 'In Search of Cultural History', 1967 / E. H. Gombrich -- 'In Search of Meaning in African Art', 1973 / William Fagg -- 'The Conditions of Artistic Creation', 1974 / T. J. Clark -- 'Art History, Kunstgeschichte and Historia', 1978 / John Onians -- 'Art History, Art Criticism and Explanation', 1981 / Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden -- 'Interpretation without Representation, or, The Viewing of Las Meninas', 1983 / Svetlana Alpers -- The End of the History of Art?, 1984 / Hans Belting.
'Feminist Interventions in the Histories of Art', 1988 / Griselda Pollock -- 'In the "Heart of Darkness"', 1993 / Olu Oguibe.

ISBN:

0714829919 (paperback)
9780714829913 (paperback)

Subject:

Art History.
Art Methodology.
Art Study and teaching.
Art Histoire.
Art Étude et enseignement.
art history.
art education.
Art.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Fernie, E. C. (Eric Campbell), 1939-
Fernie, E. C.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115973
Call No.: ID N7443.2.A7; ID:95-B1039
Status: Available