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Tables of Contents for Art History's History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
Preface to the First Edition
xi
Introduction
1
6
PART ONE: The Academy
7
22
Christian Readings of Art
8
1
Guilds
9
3
The Renaissance Academy
12
1
The French Academy
13
5
Later Academies
18
1
The Movement to the University
19
7
Conclusion
26
3
PART TWO: What Is Art? Answers from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
29
54
Ancient Theory
31
16
Plato
31
2
Aristotle
33
2
Treatises by Ancient Artists
35
2
Architecture and Order
37
6
Plotinus and Artistic Creativity
43
4
Medieval Theory: Christianity, the Human, the Divine
47
10
Summary of Medieval Aesthetics
55
2
The Renaissance (1300-1600)
57
19
Marsilio Ficino
57
1
Pico della Mirandola
58
1
Leon Battista Alberti
59
4
Leonardo da Vinci
63
2
Michelangelo
65
2
Giorgio Vasari's Lives
67
4
Mannerism
71
5
Nature, the Ideal, and Rules in Seventeenth-Century Theory
76
7
PART THREE: The Emergence of Method and Modernism in Art History
83
140
Johann J. Winckelmann and Art History
85
5
Empiricism
90
3
Immanuel Kant (1724--1804)
93
4
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770--1831)
97
5
Alois Riegl (1858--1905)
102
7
Heinrich Wolfflin (1864--1945)
109
16
Linear Versus Painterly
111
2
Plane Versus Recession
113
1
Open Versus Closed Form
114
1
Multiplicity Versus Unity (or Multiple Unity Versus Unified Unity)
115
4
Absolute Versus Relative Clarity
119
6
Visual Supremacy: Connoisseurship, Style, Formalism
125
15
Giovanni Morelli
131
2
The Vision of Roger Fry
133
2
Beyond Fry: Clement Greenberg and Abstraction
135
3
Conclusion
138
2
Sociological and Marxist Perspectives
140
10
The Mechanics of Meaning
142
2
Alienation and Ideology
144
6
The New Art History and Visual Culture
150
7
The New Art History
150
2
Visual Culture
152
2
Representation
154
3
Feminism
157
9
Reading Art History: Word, Image, Iconology, Semiotics
166
19
Ut Pictura Poesis
166
5
Iconology and Iconography: Erwin Panofsky and Art Historical Methodology
171
3
Semiotics
174
11
Deconstruction
185
9
Psychoanalysis and Art History
194
10
The Id, Ego, Superego, and States of Consciousness
195
6
Conclusion
201
3
Culture and Art History
204
12
The Other
206
3
Art History and the Other: Modernism and Primitivism
209
3
On Quality
212
2
Consequences for Art History
214
2
Influence, Originality, Greatness: A Case for Intertextuality
216
7
Influence and Derrivation
216
2
Intertextualite
218
2
The Abyss
220
3
Credits
223
1
Index
224