312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its... Read more
Contents * 1. What Is Art? * 2. Formalism and Style * 3. Iconography * 4. Contextual Approaches I: Marxism, Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racial Iconography * 5. Contextual Approaches II: Feminism and Gender * 6. Biography and Autobiography * 7. Semiotics I: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism * 8. Semiotics II: Deconstruction * 9. Psychoanalysis I: Freud * 10. Psychoanalysis II: Winnicott and Lacan * 11. Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Roger Fry and Roland Barthes
Biography
Laurie Schneider Adams
