ART HISTORY: THE KEY CONCEPTS Art History: The Key Concepts offers a systematic, reliable, accessible, and challenging reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design, and culture in general, Art History: The Key Concepts is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars, and teachers. Each entry contains a succinct definition, an exploration of its history, use, and significance, and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: (cid:2) Abstract expressionism (cid:2) Epoch (cid:2) Hybridity (cid:2) Semiology (cid:2) Zeitgeist Through extended cross-referencing, Art History: The Key Concepts builds a radical intellectual synthesis for understanding and teaching art, art history, and visual culture. Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried, and Clark (Routledge, 2005) and The New Art His- tory: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001). Jonathan Harris also wrote introductions to the four volumes of Arnold Hauser’s 1951 classic The Social History of Art, republished by Routledge in 1999. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ROUTLEDGE Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Edited by Chris Murray 0–415–24302–5 Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century Edited by Chris Murray 0–415–22202–8 Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts Edited by Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick 0–415–28426–0 Theory for Art History Jae Emerling 0–415–97364–0 ART HISTORY The Key Concepts Jonathan Harris Firstpublished2006 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAve,NewYork,NY10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness #2006JonathanHarris Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedinany morbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented, for includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem, withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Acatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenrequested ISBN10:0–415–31976–5(hbk) ISBN10:0–415–31977–3(pbk) ISBN10:0–203–62719–9(ebk) ISBN13:978–0–415–31976–8(hbk) ISBN13:978–0–415–31977–5(pbk) ISBN13:978–0–203–62719–8(ebk) As ever: for Jules and Jim, my extraordinary sons CONTENTS List of Key Concepts viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction xii KEY CONCEPTS 1 Name Index 340 vii LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS abstract expressionism career abstraction cinema academy civilisation advertising classical/class aesthetic commission agency communication allegory complexity alternative composition analysis concept appropriation conceptual art architecture/architect connoisseurship art consumption art-for-art’s-sake contemporary art history content art world convention artefact craft artisan creativity/creator artist critic artwork critical theory author criticism autonomy cubism avant-garde cultural imperialism cultural policy baroque cultural studies bauhaus culture beauty/ugliness curation body byzantine dada deconstruction canon design capitalism desire image development impressionism discourse influence dominant installation/installation art institution effects studies/effects intention emergent interpretation epoch intertextuality ethnicity ism exhibition explanation kunstwollen expressionism landscape fashion language/linguistics feminism look figurative mannerism film marxism form mass culture/mass formalism masterpiece/old master formation materials/matter functionalism/function meaning futurism means of production gaze media gender mediation genius medievalart/medieval/middleages genre metropolitan globalisation/global minimalism gothic modernism/modern movement hegemony mural painting hermeneutics museum high art myth history history painting narrative humanism/human nation hybridity naturalism neoclassicism iconography/iconic new art history ideal new media identification nude identity ideology oppositional illusionism organisation
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