Theory for Art History: Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal / Edition 2

by Jae Emerling

Overview

Theory for Art History provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works, and transformative ideas.

Written to reveal the vital connections between art history, aesthetics, and contemporary philosophy, this expanded second edition presents new ways for rethinking the methodologies and theories of art and art history. The book comprises a complete revision of each theorist; updated and trustworthy bibliographies on each; an informative introduction about the reception of critical theory within art history; and a beautifully written, original essay on the state of art history and theory that serves as an afterword.

From Marx to Deleuze, from Arendt to Rancière, Theory for Art History is designed for use by undergraduate students in courses on the theory and methodology of art history, graduate students seeking an introduction to critical theory that will prepare them to engage the primary sources, and advanced scholars in art history and visual culture studies who are themselves interested in how these perspectives inflect art historical practice.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415533904
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Series:	theory4
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	627,982
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jae Emerling is a Professor of Art History in the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the author of Photography: History and Theory, published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION : Becoming Theoretical

PREDECESSORS

1. Sigmund FREUD

2. Karl MARX

3. Friedrich NIETZSCHE

4. Ferdinand de SAUSSURE

THEORY FOR ART HISTORY

5. Theodor W. ADORNO

6. Giorgio AGAMBEN

7. Hannah ARENDT

8. Louis ALTHUSSER

9. Alain BADIOU

10. Roland BARTHES

11. Georges BATAILLE

12. Jean BAUDRILLARD

13. Walter BENJAMIN

14. Pierre BOURDIEU

15. Judith BUTLER

16. Gilles DELEUZE and Félix GUATTARI

17. Jacques DERRIDA

18. Michel FOUCAULT

19. Martin HEIDEGGER

20. Luce IRIGARAY

21. Julia KRISTEVA

22. Jacques LACAN

23. Emmanuel LEVINAS

24. Jean-François LYOTARD

25. Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY

26. Jacques RANCIÈRE

27. Edward W. SAID

28. Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK

AFTERWORD: An Art History of Events: Images, Temporality, Transmissibility

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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