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Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying philosophical and political assumptions behind each method, along with clear examples of how these are brought to bear on visual and historical analysis, the authors show that an adherence to a certain method is, in effect, a commitment to a set of beliefs and values. The book makes a strong case for the vitality of the discipline and its methodological centrality to new fields such as visual culture. This book will be of enormous value to undergraduate and graduate students, and also makes its own contributions to ongoing scholarly debates about theory and method.
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Michael Hatt is Head of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. Charlotte Klonk is a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was so confused with methodologies so I bought this book to explain it to me simply before reading around myself.
Really enjoyed it- so simple and explanatory- and covers lots of different authors. I especially liked that there was a critical review a the end of each chapter, which helped me construct my own thoughts, arguments and links between the methodologies. This also helped with linking the book together under the general theme of hermeneutics and our problematic position in history. I fully recommend this book to undergraduate history of art students; I only wish I had bought this before my second year!
Really enjoyed it- so simple and explanatory- and covers lots of different authors. I especially liked that there was a critical review a the end of each chapter, which helped me construct my own thoughts, arguments and links between the methodologies. This also helped with linking the book together under the general theme of hermeneutics and our problematic position in history. I fully recommend this book to undergraduate history of art students; I only wish I had bought this before my second year!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is a book that fails to explain clearly a range of complex ideas. If you are an undergraduate studying art history who needs a clear introduction to the range of critical approaches now current in the fields of art history and/or visual culture, I would advise against using this book. Although it does present accurately the chronological development of the theories, names the individuals who have made the principal contributions to this field, and offers useful bibliographic references, its discussions of what the ideas mean and how they relate to art-historical practice are convoluted and verbose. The chapter on Connoisseurship is, I think, genuinely misleading, and should be avoided. The chapter on Formalism is very abstract and confusing. The chapters on Feminism and Psychoanalysis are reasonably clear.
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This book is useful for getting a review of the history of art historical ideas. For the student who needs a compendium, to place different view, it is good. Some chapters are better than others, but it provides a useful framework for someone seeking to "place and date" different forms of art historical thinking.
It's a shame that art history tends to step well outside the frame of general history, but that's not the fault of the authors of this book.
It's a good book for a beginner in the field, definitely. That's why it gets 4 stars.
It's a shame that art history tends to step well outside the frame of general history, but that's not the fault of the authors of this book.
It's a good book for a beginner in the field, definitely. That's why it gets 4 stars.
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Art History ACritical introduction to its methods
Michael's Hatt's and Charlotte Klonk s 'book can serve as textbook for all graduate and undergraduate students of art history. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Kathryn
Good collection of essays on the history of art history
Had to buy this book for my course. I don't hate this book, but I don't love it either... if you are new to art history then this book is for you.
Published on 20 Nov 2009 by Ms. N. B. H. Yussof
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