The Methodologies Of Art: An Introduction - Hardcover

Adams, Laurie Schneider

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0064303128 ISBN 13: 9780064303125

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Works of art have been read in many ways since art history became an established academic discipline in the 19th century. The different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis. Since every work or art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (artist) and is dependent on its media (what it is made of) every work of art is extremely complex. The many methodologies reflect the many levels of meaning in an artistic image. This work surveys the main methodologies of artistic analysis - formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, Feminism, biography and autobiography. The final chapter considers three or four works of art from all the methodologies included.

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie Schneider Adams teaches undergraduate and graduate students at John Jay College, CUNY and the Graduate Center. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Florida, Columbia University, and Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Art Across Time, The Methodologies of Art, A History of Western Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, Art on Trial, and editor of Giotto in Perspective. She is the editor or the quarterly journal Source: Notes in the History of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0064303128
• ISBN 13: 9780064303125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256