1st Edition

The New Art History A Critical Introduction

By Jonathan Harris Copyright 2002
320 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely under the term 'the new art history'. He distinguishes between these and earlier forms of... Read more
Acknowlegements Dedication Illustrations Introduction 1. Radical Art History: Back to its Future? 2. Capitalist Modernity, the Nation-State and Visual Representation 3. Feminism, Art and Art History 4. Subjects, Identities and Visual Ideology 5. Structures and Meanings in Art and Society 6. Searching, After Certainties 7. Sexualities Represented Conclusion: The Means and Ends of Radical Art History

Biography

Jonathan Harris is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at Liverpool University. He is the author of Federal Art and National Culture (Cambridge University Press 1995), co-author of Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Yale University Press 1993), and co-editor of Art in Modern Culture (Phaidon 1992).