Art History: Critical Introduction To Its Methods, A

Description:
Unique in its approach, by applying the different theories used in art history to one painting, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon An ideal text for teaching, it provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within the subject Offers a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism by explaining the philosophical and political assumptions behind each approach using clear examples Offers a sense of art history's own history as a discipline, from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary practices

Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 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.

Author Biography:
Michael Hatt is Head of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London Charlotte Klonk is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Warwick