Art history, aesthetics, visual studies / Edited by Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey.
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TextSeries: Clark studies in the visual artsPublication details: Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002Description: xvii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0300097891 (Yale)
- 0931102499 (Clark)
- 701/.17 21
- BH19 .A73 2002
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Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "Art history, aesthetics, visual studies" held 4-5 May, 2001 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Includes bibliographical references.
Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation.
What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen distinguished scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through their contemporary practices.