Art History Now

Objects, Concepts, Approaches
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-91518-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This volume presents definitive essays by internationally renowned experts and innovative younger scholars on the wide range of approaches used by art historians past and present to analyze images, objects, buildings, and performances.

It provides critical considerations of key methodologies, from formalism and iconography to social history and psychoanalytic approaches. It foregrounds fundamental concepts, from the artist, the beholder, and the frame to museums, canons, and periodization. At the same time, it broadens art itself as a category by considering photographs, digital media, performance, architecture, and visual culture more generally. The chapters also explore new approaches and new points of view that have expanded Art History’s remit in exciting ways in recent years by addressing growing interest in race, ethnicity, and the legacies of colonialism; gender identity and sexuality; ecocritical approaches to making and consuming art; materiality and the senses; digitally informed methods; the nascent field of Disability Studies; and scientific research on vision and on the technical analysis of works of art.

This comprehensive collection will be indispensable for students and scholars of Art History, as well as for readers coming from other disciplines who are seeking fresh approaches to visual and material culture.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Geraldine A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Art History Then…and Now  Part I: The Objects of Art History 1. Material: Engaging with the Stuff of Art  2. Architecture: Constructing Global Histories  3. Photography: Between Discipline and Indiscipline  4. New Media: Time Comes Again  5. Performance: Art is Alive  6. Reproductions: Art History’s Images  7. Frame: Border, Boundary, Limit  8. Technical Studies: Where Science meets Art  Part II: Art Historical Concepts  9. Artist: Functions and Forms of History and Subjectivity  10. Beholder: Absorption, Objectification, and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity  11. Museum: When is a Museum?  12. Canon: A Chinese Laocoön and the Process of Canon Formation  13. Periodization: Must We Divide (Art) History into Periods?  14. Modernism: Critical Genealogies and Contemporary Possibilities  15. Orientalism: Post-Colonialism, Time, and the Image  16. Visual Culture: Not Just Another Name for Art History  17. The Senses: The Sensory Revolution and Art History  Part III: Approaches to Art History  18. Connoisseurship: Invention, Abandonment, Reinvention  19. Form and Formalism: Problematic and Inevitable  20. Iconology: Method and Movement  21. Social Art History: The Doing and Un-Doing of a Discipline  22. Psychoanalysis: The Art of Trauma  23. Gender/Sexuality: Sexual Difference and the Structure of Art (History)  24. Race/Ethnicity: The Practices of Difference and the Politics of Marginality in Art History  25. Global Art History: Post-Colonial Origins, De-Colonial Futures  26. Anthropology: Playing with Dolls – Art, Effigy, Agency  27. Environmental Approaches: Expanded Perspectives, Differential Positions  28. Disability Studies: Institutional Critique and Disability Art as an Heir to Art’s History  29. Neuroaesthetics: Is it just Brains, Beauty, and Babel?  30. Digital Approaches: Do We Really Need Digital Art History?

Über Autor(innen)

Geraldine A. Johnson is Head of the History of Art Department at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. She has published widely on sculpture from the late Medieval period to the present day, gender and the visual arts, the history of photography, and the historiography of Art History. She co-edited the prize-winning Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy and edited Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension. She is also the author of Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction. Most recently, she co-edited Photo Archives and the Place of Photography (Routledge, 2025) and she is currently co-curating a major exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum on art and the senses in the global Early Modern period.