2nd Edition
Theory for Art History Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal
INTRODUCTION : Becoming Theoretical
PREDECESSORS
1. Sigmund FREUD
2. Karl MARX
3. Friedrich NIETZSCHE
4. Ferdinand de SAUSSURE
THEORY FOR ART HISTORY
5. Theodor W. ADORNO
6. Giorgio AGAMBEN
7. Hannah ARENDT
8. Louis ALTHUSSER
9. Alain BADIOU
10. Roland BARTHES
11. Georges BATAILLE
12. Jean BAUDRILLARD
13. Walter BENJAMIN
14. Pierre BOURDIEU
15. Judith BUTLER
16. Gilles DELEUZE and Félix GUATTARI
17. Jacques DERRIDA
18. Michel FOUCAULT
19. Martin HEIDEGGER
20. Luce IRIGARAY
21. Julia KRISTEVA
22. Jacques LACAN
23. Emmanuel LEVINAS
24. Jean-François LYOTARD
25. Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY
26. Jacques RANCIÈRE
27. Edward W. SAID
28. Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK
AFTERWORD: An Art History of Events: Images, Temporality, Transmissibility
Biography
Jae Emerling is a Professor of Art History in the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the author of Photography: History and Theory, published by Routledge.
"Located outside the often spectral interiors of historicity, Emerling’s Theory for Art History demands our attention with an exquisite rendering of art and image making. His is as much a spatial reckoning with the labor, manifestation, and reception of art history as it is a deliberation on how we construct the temporal. With each chapter, we are fortunate to lose ourselves among these pages as they extend meaning, promise epistemic entanglements, and signify our own disciplinary un-becoming."
Sean Anderson, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
"A lucid and profoundly hopeful inquiry into the possibilities for art history and critical theory by one of the most brilliant of the emerging generation of art historians."
Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
