2nd Edition

Theory for Art History Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

By Jae Emerling Copyright 2019
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Theory for Art History provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works, and transformative ideas.  

    Written to reveal the vital connections between art history, aesthetics, and contemporary philosophy, this expanded second edition presents new ways for rethinking the methodologies and theories of art and art history. The book comprises a complete revision of each theorist; updated and trustworthy bibliographies on each; an informative introduction about the reception of critical theory within art history; and a beautifully written, original essay on the state of art history and theory that serves as an afterword.  

    From Marx to Deleuze, from Arendt to Rancière, Theory for Art History is designed for use by undergraduate students in courses on the theory and methodology of art history, graduate students seeking an introduction to critical theory that will prepare them to engage the primary sources, and advanced scholars in art history and visual culture studies who are themselves interested in how these perspectives inflect art historical practice.    

    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