Research Catalog

Title

Field notes on the visual arts : seventy-five short essays / edited by Karen Lang.

Publication

• Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Lang, Karen

Description

xviii, 349 pages : illustrations (some color); 23

Subject

• Art
• Art criticism
• Art > Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Art
• art criticism
• 20.07 art criticism, art review

Genre/Form

• works of art.
• Art.
• Art criticism.
• Œuvres d'art.
• Critiques d'art.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Anthropomorphism. Inhale, Exhale, Pause: Breath and the Open Mouth in Sculpture / Elizabeth King -- Art as Soul-Making from Chauvet to Cinema/ J. M. Bernstein -- Rocks Like Us / Carolyn Dean -- Anthropomorphism as Hermeneutic Mode / Caroline van Eck -- Reflections on Anthropomorphism / Finbarr B. Flood -- "Morphosis" as Cognition / Dario Gamboni / The Transformative Image / Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser -- The Bodily and the Anthropomorphic / James Meyer -- Anthropomorphic Beauty: Photography, the Empress, and Modern Japan / Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit -- Appropriation. Back Then, In Between, and Today / Georg Baselitz -- Appropriation and Influence / Kirk Ambrose -- Photographs Can Never Be Still / Elizabeth Edwards -- Revenants: Gestures of Repetition in Contemporary Art / Ursula Frohne -- Appropriation and Epigonality: A Romantic Narrative / Cordula Grewe -- The Poet and the Bandits / Daniel Heller-Roazen -- An Ethics of Appropriation / Ian McLean -- The Dialectics of Appropriation: Reflections on a Changing World / Saloni Mathur -- On Appropriation / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Contingency. A Shot in the Dark / Linda Connor -- Photographs Hold a Redemptive Power / Giovanna Borradori -- Give Me a Kiss and Stay Connected: Reflections on Contingency in the Medical Humanities / Marcia Brennan -- The Paradox of Contingency / Mary Ann Doane -- En blanc et noir / Angus Fletcher -- Images and the Unforeseen / Peter Geimer -- Eternal Contingencies / Mark Ledbury -- Out of the Blue: Two African Textile Contingencies / Chris Spring -- Detail. Dream Art / Susan Hiller -- Material Details-Artists' Pigments / Spike Bucklow -- Goethe on Myron's Cow: A Detail / Johannes Endres -- On Detail / Carlo Ginzburg -- Why Chinese Paintings Are So Large / Joan Kee -- Hairy Details / Spyros Papapetros -- Moving In and Stepping Back / Joanna Roche -- The Detail as Fragment of a Social Past / Nina Rowe -- Antiquarians in the Field / Alain Schnapp -- The Feminine and Vegetable Principle of Life / Blake Stimson -- Materiality. Materiality and Objecthood: Questions of Sedimented Labor / Martha Rosler -- Medieval Materiality / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Materiality of Color: South Asia / Natasha Eaton -- Materiality Matters \ Michael Ann Holly -- Material and Sacred Artistic Agency / Michael Kelly -- Materiality Is Somewhere Else / Robin Kelsey -- A Lexicon of Meaningful Artistic Media / Alisa LaGamma -- Dust: Recomposing the Decomposed / Monika Wagner -- Awkward Objects / Oliver Watson -- On the Textility of Spatial Construction / Tristan Weddigen -- Mimesis. The Vertiginous Image / Dexter Dalwood -- Visual Hermeneutics: Art History and Physiognomics / Daniela Bohde -- Byzantine Innovative Mimesis / Helen C. Evans -- Ethnographic Mimesis: A Collaboration between Zhang Daqian and Tibetan Painters, 1941-43/ Sarah E. Fraser -- Classical Mimesis as Embodied Imitation / Thomas Habinek -- The Mimetic Pulse of Primal Unity / Tom Huhn -- Blood Heads: Index and Presence / Jeanette Kohl -- The Figural Shape of Perception / Niklaus Largier -- Mimesis for Artists, Writers, and Audiences / Peter Mack -- Mimesis and the Anti-Mimetic / Alex Potts -- Time. Time Is of the Essence / Eric Fischl -- Time in Ancient Egypt / Jan Assmann -- Stop-Start / Malcolm Bull -- Notes from a Field / Darby English -- Time, Death, and History / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Painting Time / Ajay Sinha -- The Texture of Time: Durational Conditions of Contemporary Art / Gloria Sutton -- What Father Time Has Left Behind / Gerrit Walczak -- The Origin of Time / David E. Wellbery -- Tradition. Art, Tradition, and the Dancing Masquerade(r) / Obiora Udechukwu -- Tradition: History and Reification / John Brewer -- Etching, Tradition, and the German Imagination / Jay A. Clarke -- Field Notes on the Contemporaneity of Tradition / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Tradition and Critical Historiography / Hans Hayden -- Tradition as Treason / Gregg M. Horowitz -- Material Translation and Its Challenges / Susanne Küchler -- Tradition Is an Exquisite Corpse / Maria Loh -- Recovering (from) Tradition: Jeffrey Thomas, Kent Monkman, and the Modern "Indian" Imaginary / Ruth B. Phillips -- The Tradition of the New: Alois Riegl's Late Antiquity / Regine Prange

ISBN

• 1783209968
• 9781783209965

OCLC

• on1065733575
• 1065733575
• SCSB-9508719

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library