Library Resources for Art History 593
Theory and Methodology
Theory and Methodology
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There are five different areas (Open Stacks, Closed Stacks, Reference, Reserve and Vault - all of which except "Open Stacks" do not circulate) in the Ricker Library where books can be located.
The list below is a combination of syllabi provided by Professors Mendelson, Rosenthal, Vazquez, and Wood. For the specific required readings, please consult classroom handouts. This bibliography is limited to monographs only.
Print Resources
Authorship, Audience and Reception Theory
| Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, and Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. (Modern Languages) |
| Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. (English) |
Biography as Art History
| Adams, Laurie Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction. New York: Icon Editions, 1996. |
| Fernie, Eric, ed. Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1995. |
Iconography and Iconology
| Nochlin, Linda. Women, Art and Power: and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1988 |
| Panofsky, Erwin. Meaning In the Visual Arts. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1955 (Stacks) |
| Wood, Christopher, ed. Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s. New York: Zone Books, 2000. |
Ideology, Capital and Representation
| Antal, Frederick. Classicism and Romanticism, with other studies in art history. New York: Icon Editions, 1973. (Stacks) |
| Burke, Peter. The French Historical Revolution: The Annale School, 1929-1989. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. (History) |
| Clark, T.J. Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution. London: Thames & Hudson, 1973. |
| Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Age of Manet and His Followers. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999. |
| Gombrich, E.H. Meditations on a Hobby Horse. London: Phaidon, 1963. (Stacks) |
The New Art History, The New Historicism
| Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: Logic of the Gaze. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. |
| Podro, Michael. The Critical Historians of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. |
| Preziosi, Donald. Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. |
| Rees, A.L. and Frances Borzello, ed. The New Art History. London: Camden Press, 1986. |
| Venturi, Lionello. The History of Art Criticism. New York, 1964. |
Periods and Categorization
| Janson, H.W. History of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. |
| Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. |
| Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. |
| Wöfflin, Heinrich. Principles of Art History, the Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art. Dover Books on Art. New York: Dover, 1950. |
Postculturalism
| Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. |
| Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: a Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. |
| Moxey, Keith. Practice of Theory: Postcultrualism, Cultural Politics and Art History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. |
| Silverman, Kaja. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. |
| Sturrock, John, ed. Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida. London: Oxford University Press, 1979. |
Semiotics
| Coward, Rosalind and John Ellis. Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. |
| Hawkes, Terence. Structuralism & Semiotics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. |
| Moxey, Keith. Practice of Theory: Postcultrualism, Cultural Politics and Art History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. |
| Nelson, Robert S. and Richard Shiff. Critical Terms for Art History. Chicago University Press, 2003. |
| Panofsky, Erwin. Meaning in the Visual Arts. Garden City, 1955. |
| Silverman, Kaja. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. |
| Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill Co., 1966. |
Sexuality, Gender, and Vision
| Adams, Laurie Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: an Introduction. New York: Icon Editions, 1996. |
| Broude, N. and M. Garrard. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. |
| Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. |
| Nochlin, Linda. Women, Art, and Power: and other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. |
| Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988. |
Style and Connoisseurship
| Berenson, Bernard. Rudiments of Connoisseurship. New York: Schocken Books, 1962. |
| Morelli, Giovanni. Italian Painters: Critical Studies of Their Works. London |
Subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Readings
| Adams, Laurie Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: an Introduction. New York: Icon Editions, 1996. |
| Cheetham, Mark, ed. The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
Text, Context and Structuralism
| Barthes, Roland. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1979. |
| Harris, Jonathan. The New Art History: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2001. |
| Sturrock, John, ed. Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida. London: Oxford University Press, 1979. |
Dictionaries
| Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. München: K.G. Saur, 1992-multivolumes. |
| Bénézit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. paris: Gründ, 1999. 14 volumes. |
| Contemporary Artists. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001. 2 volumes |
| The Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. 34 volumes. (Full-Text available via Grove Dictionary of Art) |
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