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Art and Thought

"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime."
—Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute

Dana Arnold (Edited by), D Arnold (Author), Margaret Iversen (Edited by)

9780631227144, Wiley

Hardback, published 25 March 2003

240 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.476 kg

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.

  • Brings together newly commissioned essays that explore the relationship between the discipline of art history and movements in the history of western thought.
  • Considers the impact of the writings of key thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, on the way in which objects are perceived and understood and histories of art are constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured according to varying sets of philosophical frameworks.
  • Introduces the reader to the dynamic interface between philosophical reflections and art practices.
  • Part of the New Interventions in Art History series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editor's Preface.

Editors Introduction.

1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas Puttfarken).

2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay Bernstein).

3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro).

4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones).

5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts).

6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism (Jonathan Vickery).

7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda Pollock).

8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville).

9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello).

10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin).

Bibliography.

Index.

Subject Areas: Art treatments & subjects [AG]
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