Theory for Art History: Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal / Edition 1

by Jae Emerling

Overview

Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure – and twenty-six major moderns from Adorno to Spivak. This book includes key concepts, biography, survey of work, bibliography of primary texts, and a bibliography of secondary criticism.

Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415973649
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/2005
Series:	theory4
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jae Emerling has been Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of Art History at UCLA.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
	Predecessors	1
1	Sigmund Freud	3
2	Karl Marx	15
3	Friedrich Nietzsche	25
4	Ferdinand de Saussure	33
	Theory for Art History	39
5	Theodor W. Adorno	41
6	Giorgio Agamben	49
7	Louis Althusser	57
8	Alain Badiou	65
9	Roland Barthes	69
10	Georges Bataille	79
11	Jean Baudrillard	87
12	Walter Benjamin	95
13	Pierre Bourdieu	105
14	Judith Butler	115
15	Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari	121
16	Jacques Derrida	131
17	Michel Foucault	145
18	Martin Heidegger	157
19	Luce Irigaray	169
20	Julia Kristeva	177
21	Jacques Lacan	185
22	Emmanuel Levinas	195
23	Jean-Francois Lyotard	203
24	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	213
25	Edward W. Said	219
26	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	227
	Afterword	235
27	A Relation of Immanence: The Afterlife of Art History and Critical Theory	237

What People are Saying About This

Donald Preziosi

A lucid and profoundly hopeful inquiry into the possibilities for art history and critical theory by one of the most brilliant of the emerging generation of art historians. (Donald Preziosi, Oxford University)

Editorial Reviews

"Located outside the often spectral interiors of historicity, Emerling’s Theory for Art History demands our attention with an exquisite rendering of art and image making. His is as much a spatial reckoning with the labor, manifestation, and reception of art history as it is a deliberation on how we construct the temporal. With each chapter, we are fortunate to lose ourselves among these pages as they extend meaning, promise epistemic entanglements, and signify our own disciplinary un-becoming."

Sean Anderson, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

"A lucid and profoundly hopeful inquiry into the possibilities for art history and critical theory by one of the most brilliant of the emerging generation of art historians."

Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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