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Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 519 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Art -- Historiography -- Terminology. English language -- Terms and phrases. Art -- Historiography. English language. Terminology. Terms and phrases. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9846010

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Other authors / contributors:	Nelson, Robert S., 1947- Shiff, Richard.
ISBN:	9781849723527 1849723524 0226571661 9780226571669 0226571688 9780226571683
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes graphical cross-reference mapper. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from sign to meaning, ritual to commodity. Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art.
Other form:	Critical terms for art history. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003 0226571661 0226571688

Table of Contents:

Mediation / Robert S. Nelson
At the place of a foreword : someone looking, reading, and writing / Robert S. Nelson
Operations
Representation / David Summers ; Sign / Alex Potts ; Simulacrum / Michael Camille
Communications
Word and image / W.J.T. Mitchell ; Narrative / Wolfgang Kemp ; Performance / Kristine Stiles ; Style / Jas Elsner ; Context / Paul Mattick, Jr. / Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann
Histories
Originality / Richard Shiff ; Appropriation / Robert S. Nelson ; Art history / David Carrier ; Modernism / Charles Harrison ; Avant-garde / Ann Gibson ; Primitive / Mark Antliff & Patricia Leighten ; Memory/monument / James E. Young
Social relations
Body / Amelia Jones ; Beauty / Ivan Gaskell ; Ugliness / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer ; Ritual / Suzanne P. Blier ; Fetish / William Pietz ; Gaze / Margaret Olin ; Gender / Whitney Davis ; Identity / Richard Meyer
Societies
Production / Terry Smith ; Commodity / Paul Wood ; Collecting/museums / Donald Preziosi ; Value / Joseph L. Koerner & Lisbet Rausing ; Postmodernism/postcolonialism / Homi K. Bhabha ; Visual culture/visual studies / James D. Herbert ; Social history of art / Craig Clunas ; Afterword : Figuration / Richard Shiff.

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