Critical terms for art history / edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff.

Title & Author:

Critical terms for art history / edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Description:

xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Art-Reference

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-347) and index.
At the place of a foreword : someone looking, reading, and writing / Robert S. Nelson -- Representation / David Summers -- Sign / Alex Potts -- Simulacrum / Michael Camille -- Word and image / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Narrative / Wolfgang Kemp -- Context / Paul Mattick, Jr. -- Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann -- Originality / Richard Shiff -- Appropriation / Robert S. Nelson -- Art history / David Carrier -- Modernism / Charles Harrison -- Avant-garde / Ann Gibson -- Primitive / Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten -- Ritual / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Fetish / William Pietz -- Gaze / Margaret Olin -- Gender / Whitney Davis -- Modes of production / Terry Smith -- Commodity / Paul Wood -- Collecting/museums / Donald Preziosi -- Value / Joseph Leo Koerner and Lisbet Koerner -- Postmodernism/postcolonialism / Homi K. Bhabha -- Afterword : figuration / Richard Shiff.

Summary:

Item consists of essays, each on a term (for example "gender", "representation", "avant-garde", "fetish", "gaze", "collecting/museums").

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226571645 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780226571645 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0226571653 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780226571652 (paper ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art Historiography Terminology.
English language Terms and phrases.
Art Historiographie Terminologie.
Anglais (Langue) Mots et locutions.
Art Historiography
English language
Fachsprache
Kunstgeschichte
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Begrippen.
Kunstgeschichte (Fach)

Form/genre:

Dictionary
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Terminology
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Nelson, Robert S., 1947- editor.
Shiff, Richard, editor.
Collection Art référence.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126709
Call No.: ID N34.C75; ID:97-B115
Status: Available

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