The Art of Art History A Critical Anthology [Paperback]

Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum as ritual, digital art, and many others. Each of the book's eight thematic sections offers an introduction providing background information, further reading, and critical commentary on the issues at stake. This edition has been updated and expanded to include sixteen new selections by key figures from Giorgio Vasari to Walter Benjamin and Satya Mohanty, a new concluding essay from Donald Preziosi on the tasks of the art historian today, and an entirely new section on Globalization and Its Discontents. For students and teachers, artists and historians, and anyone interested in the evolution and purpose of art history, this anthology offers many fascinating insights.

Introduction
Donald Preziosi, Art History: Making the Visible Legible

Chapter 1: Art as History
Introduction
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture
Whitney Davis, Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History

Chapter 2: Aesthetics
Introduction
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Fine Art
D.N. Rodowick, Impure Mimesis, or the Ends of the Aesthetic
William Pietz, Fetish

Chapter 3: Form, Content, Style
Introduction
Heinrich W?lfflinl,