Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method

<i>Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method</i> examines the various patterns and approaches to the discipline of art history exhibited across the scholarship of all periods over the last 30 years, resulting in a cross section of art history in all its complexities and a timely survey of its historiography. <ul type="disc"><li>Newly commissioned essays by a group of international scholars <li>Takes a trans-disciplinary approach to the history of Art History <li>Each essay presents original and incisive arguments <li>The essays combine to present a thought provoking re-evaluation of the methods of Art History </ul>Content: <br>Chapter 1 Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method (pages 1–7): Dana Arnold<br>Chapter 2 Sexing the Canvas (pages 8–33): Nicholas Chare<br>Chapter 3 Phenomenology and Interpretation beyond the Flesh (pages 34–55): Amanda Boetzkes<br>Chapter 4 Surveying Contemporary Art: Post?War, Postmodern, and then What? (pages 56–77): Dan Karlholm<br>Chapter 5 Michel Foucault and the Point of Painting (pages 78–98): Catherine M. Soussloff<br>Chapter 6 Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture (pages 99–128): Jeremy Tanner<br>Chapter 7 Art Fiction (pages 129–149): H. Perry Chapman<br>Chapter 8 Dancing Years, or Writing as a Way Out (pages 150–164): Adrian Rifkin