Art and Thought

Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic consider the impact of the writings of key thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, on the way in which objects are perceived and understood and histories of art are constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured according to varying sets of philosophical frameworks. Engaging and provocative, Art and Thought presents an incisive analysis of the intellectual preoccupations that inform the complex narrative of our visual culture, and introduces the reader to the dynamic interface between philosophical reflections and art practices.

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"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime." Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute

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Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton. Maggie Iversen is Professor of Art History at the University of Essex.

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Notes on Contributors. Series Editor's Preface. . Editors Introduction. 1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas Puttfarken) 2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay Bernstein) 3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro) 4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones) 5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts) 6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism (Jonathan Vickery) 7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda Pollock) 8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville) 9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello) 10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin) Bibliography. Index.

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