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Art History and Art Criticism

Art History and Art Criticism. Week 7 Chapter 4 Thinking about Art History Iris Tuan. The Ideas Interacted with the Visual. Chapter 1 — distinction between art history and art appreciation and art criticism Primary evidence — the work of art (p. 76) Issues such as class and gender (p. 77)

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Art History and Art Criticism

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  1. Art History and Art Criticism Week 7 Chapter 4 Thinking about Art History Iris Tuan

  2. The Ideas Interacted with the Visual • Chapter 1—distinction between art history and art appreciation and art criticism • Primary evidence—the work of art (p. 76) • Issues such as class and gender (p. 77) • The term “aesthetics” (p. 77) • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: Taste • Challenge the idea that the purpose of art is to imitate nature (p. 77) • An individual’s judgment or taste about aesthetics could mean something to other people (p. 78)

  3. Kant vs. Hegel • Kant’s Critique of Judgment • Underpin the concept of `genius’ (p. 78) • Kant’s idea of the aesthetic was refuted by G. W. F. Hegel (p. 78) • Volksgeist, the spirit of the nation • Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age • The history of the apirit can be broken up into three periods—1. the symbolic, 2. the classical, and 3. the romantic (p. 78-79)

  4. Art History as a Systematic Enquiry • E.g. Reynold’s Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen (1773) • Reflects the later 18th century preoccupation with antiquity (p. 80) • Karl Marx: Historical Materialism (p. 80) • The base—the economic basis for society • The superstructure—the art

  5. Ideology • The Manipulation of power • Two social groups: the exploited and the exploiters (p. 80) • The group is based on wealth (p. 81) • E.g. John Constable’s The Cornfield (1826) • An idyllic representation of the English countryside • Question: Who is looking at it?

  6. Theories Semiotics (p. 82) Michel Foucault’s What Is an Author Authenticity and authorship (p. 83) Deconstruction: E.g. Jacques Derrida (p. 83) Decode (p. 85) The “inside” and the “outside” of a work of art E.g. Monet’s Rouen Cathedral (1894)

  7. Psychoanalysis and Feminism • The study of the unconscious mind • Sigmund Freud (p. 86) • The representation of women • Relationship between the sexes (p. 87) • Art indeed has a history (p. 89)

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