Table of Contents
Plates ix Notes on Contributors x
Preface xvi
Part I: Tradition and the Academy 1
Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory 3 Carolyn Wilde
1 The Classical Concept of Mimesis 19 Göran Sörbom
2 Medieval Art Theory 29 Hugh Bredin
3 Neoplatonist Aesthetics 40 Suzanne Stern-Gillet
4 Renaissance Art Theories 49 François Quiviger
5 Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy 61 Geraldine A. Johnson
6 The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci 75 Robert Williams
7 Academic Theory 1550–1800 88 Paul Duro
8 Rhetorical Categories in the Academy 104 Caroline van Eck
9 The Picturesque and its Development 116 Andrew Ballantyne
Part II: Around Modernism 125
10 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel 127 Jason Gaiger
11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel 139 David Summers
12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory 150 Wendy S. Mercer
13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial 159 Richard Shiff
14 Reading Artists’ Words 173 Richard Hobbs
15 Nietzsche and the Artist 183 Michael White
16 Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cezanne) 196 Paul Smith
17 Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde 215 Paul Wood
18 On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art 229 Fred Orton
19 Anti-Art and the Concept of Art 244 Paul N. Humble
20 Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex 253 David Hopkins
Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism 265
21 Marxism and Critical Art History 267 David Craven
22 Walter Benjamin and Art Theory 286 Howard Caygill
23 Bakhtin and the Visual Arts 292 Deborah J. Haynes
24 Peirce’s Visuality and the Semiotics of Art 303 Michael Leja
25 Conceptual Art 317 Charles Harrison
26 Barthes on Art 327 Margaret Iversen 27 Foucault and Art 337 Roy Boyne
28 Derrida and the Parergon 349 Robin Marriner
29 What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard’s Concept of the Sublime 360 Renée van de Vall
30 Deleuze on Francis Bacon 370 Ian Heywood
31 Feminisms and Art Theory 380 Marsha Meskimmon
32 Psycho-Phallus (Qu’est-ce que c’est?) 397 Mignon Nixon
Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art 409
33 The Rules of Representation 411 John Willats
34 Gombrich and Psychology 426 Richard Woodfield
35 Hermeneutics and Art Theory 436 Nicholas Davey
36 Reciprocity and Reception Theory 448 Michael Ann Holly
37 The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art 458 Carl Hausman
38 Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture 467 Charlotte Klonk
39 Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art 477 Paul Crowther
40 The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory 487 Garry L. Hagberg
Index 505
