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Overview
What is the relation of art and history? What is art today? Why does art affect us? In Field Notes on the Visual Arts, seventy-five scholars, curators, and artists traverse chronology and geography to reveal the meanings and dilemmas of art. Organized under seven major headings—anthropomorphism, appropriation, contingency, detail, materiality, time, and tradition—the contributions are written by historians of art, literature, culture, and science, as well as archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, curators, and artists. By bringing together voices that are generally separated both inside and outside the academy, Field Notes on the Visual Arts makes clear that the work of art is both meaningful and resistant to meaning.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783209965 |
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| Publisher: | Intellect, Limited |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2019 |
| Pages: | 340 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Karen Lang is Professor of the history of Art at the University of Warwick.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Anthropomorphism
Inhale, Exhale, Pause: Breath and the Open Mouth in Sculpture Elizabeth King 3
Art as Soul-Making from Chauvet to Cinema J. M. Bernstein 8
Rocks Like Us Carolyn Dean 12
Anthropomorphism as Hermeneutic Mode Caroline van Eck 16
Reflections on Anthropomorphism Finbarr B. Flood 20
"Morphosis" as Cognition Dario Gamboni 24
The Transformative Image Jane Garnett Gervase Rosser 29
The Bodily and the Anthropomorphic James Meyer 32
Anthropomorphic Beauty: Photography, the Empress, and Modern Japan Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit 36
Appropriation
Back Then, In Between, and Today Georg Baselitz 43
Appropriation and Influence Kirk Ambrose 49
Photographs Can Never Be Still Elizabeth Edwards 53
Revenants: Gestures of Repetition in Contemporary Art Ursula Frohne 56
Appropriation and Epigonality: A Romantic Narrative Cordula Grewe 63
The Poet and the Bandits Daniel Heller-Roazen 68
An Ethics of Appropriation Ian McLean 71
The Dialectics of Appropriation: Reflections on a Changing World Saloni Mathur 75
On Appropriation Iain Boyd Whyte 77
Contingency
A Shot in the Dark Linda Connor 83
Photographs Hold a Redemptive Power Giovanna Borradori 85
Give Me a Kiss and Stay Connected: Reflections on Contingency in the Medical Humanities Marcia Brennan 87
The Paradox of Contingency Mary Ann Doane 90
En bhinc et noir Angus Fletcher 93
Images and the Unforeseen Peter Geimer 96
Eternal Contingencies Mark Ledbury 99
Out of the Blue: Two African Textile Contingencies Chris Spring 103
Detail
Dream Art Susan Hiller 109
Material Details-Artists' Pigments Spike Bucklow 112
Goethe on Myron's Cow: A Detail Johannes Endres 116
On Detail Carlo Ginzburg 120
Why Chinese Paintings Are So Large Joan Kee 125
Hairy Details Spyros Papapetros 129
Moving In and Stepping Back Joanna Roche 134
The Detail as Fragment of a Social Past Nina Rowe 139
Antiquarians in the Field Alain Schnapp 142
The Feminine and Vegetable Principle of Life Blake Stimson 146
Materiality
Materiality and Objecthood: Questions of Sedimented Labor Martha Rosier 153
Medieval Materiality Caroline Walker Bynum 156
Materiality of Color: South Asia Natasha Eaton 158
Materiality Matters Michael Ann Holly 162
Material and Sacred Artistic Agency Michael Kelly 166
Materiality Is Somewhere Else Robin Kelsey 171
A Lexicon of Meaningful Artistic Media Alisa LaGamma 174
Dust: Recomposing the Decomposed Monika Wagner 182
Awkward Objects Oliver Watson 188
On the Textility of Spatial Construction Tristan Weddigen 192
Mimesis
The Vertiginous Image Dexter Dalwood 201
Visual Hermeneutics: Art History and Physiognomies Daniela Bohde 205
Byzantine Innovative Mimesis Helen C. Evans 209
Ethnographic Mimesis: A Collaboration between Zhang Daqian and Tibetan Painters, 1941-43 Sarah E. Fraser 213
Classical Mimesis as Embodied Imitation Thomas Habinek 218
The Mimetic Pulse of Primal Unity Tom Huhn 221
Blood Heads: Index and Presence Jeanette Kohl 226
The Figural Shape of Perception Niklaus Largier 230
Mimesis for Artists, Writers, and Audiences Peter Mack 233
Mimesis and the Anti-Mimetic Alex Potts 236
Time
Time Is of the Essence Eric Fischl 243
Time in Ancient Egypt Jan Assmann 247
Stop-Start Malcolm Bull 249
Notes from a Field Darby English 252
Time, Death, and History Ludmilla Jordanova 255
Painting Time Ajay Sinha 259
The Texture of Time: Durational Conditions of Contemporary Art Gloria Sutton 266
What Father Time Has Left Behind Gerrit Walczak 271
The Origin of Time David E. Wellbery 274
Tradition
Art, Tradition, and the Dancing Masquerade(r) Obiora Udechukwu 279
Tradition: History and Reification John Brewer 283
Etching, Tradition, and the German Imagination Jay A. Clarke 286
Field Notes on the Contemporaneity of Tradition Tapati Guha-Thakurta 290
Tradition and Critical Historiography Hans Hayden 294
Tradition as Treason Gregg M. Horowitz 297
Material Translation and Its Challenges Susanne Küchler 300
Tradition Is an Exquisite Corpse Maria Loir 304
Recovering (from) Tradition: Jeffrey Thomas, Kent Monkman, and the Modern "Indian" Imaginary Ruth B. Phillips 309
The Tradition of the New: Alois Riegl's Late Antiquity Regine Prange 315
Contributors 321
Short Bibliography 331
Index 339