A Companion to Art Theory

ISBN: 978-0-631-20762-7
Materia: Varios
Autor: Smith, Paul
Editorial: Blackwell Publishers
Edición: 2002
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Páginas: 552
PVP: 182,00 €

Reseña:
This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. Following an extensive introduction on the formation of modern art theory, the "Companion" is organized chronologically so that readers can trace developments of visual art theory, from classical and medieval sources and modern conceptions of art as they have been theorized since the Renaissance, through to some current theoretical preoccupations.In addition to outlining and describing various theoretical positions, the book's chapters articulate some assumptions that underpin them and raise more general questions about the nature of theorizing about art. In this way, "The Companion" provides both an introduction to main themes of Western art theory and a source for critical enquiry into the purposes, possibilities and limitations of theory in the context of artistic practice.The work can also be used alongside the three "Art in Theory" anthologies published by Blackwell, as a further art theory resource.

Índice:
Plates.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface.
Pt. I Tradition and the Academy
Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory by Carolyn Wilde.
1. The Classical Concept of Mimesis by Goran Sorbom.
2. Medieval Art Theory by Hugh Bredin.
3. Neoplatonist Aesthetics by Suzanne Stern-Gillet.
4. Renaissance Art Theories by Francois Quiviger.
5. Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy by Geraldine A. Johnson.
6. The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci by Robert Williams.
7. Academic Theory 1550-1800 by Paul Duro.
8. Rhetorical Categories in the Academy by Caroline van Eck.
9. The Picturesque and its Development by Andrew Ballantyne.
Pt. II Around Modernism
10. The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel by Jason Gaiger.
11. E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel by David Summers.
12. German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory by Wendy S. Mercer.
13. Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial by Richard Shiff.
14. Reading Artists' Words by Richard Hobbs.
15. Nietzsche and the Artist by Michael White.
16. Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cezanne) by Paul Smith.
17. Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde by Paul Wood.
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