Main entry:

Belting, Hans.

Title & Author:

Art history after modernism / Hans Belting ; translated by Caroline Saltzwedel and Mitch Cohen, with additional translation by Kenneth Northcott.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte? : eine Revision nach zehn Jahren. 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
Modernism in the Mirror of Contemporary Culture -- Epilogues for Art or for Art History? -- The Meaning of Art History in Today's Culture -- Art Criticism versus Art History -- The Unwelcome Heritage of Modernism: Style and History -- The Late Cult of Modernism: Documenta and Western Art -- Western Art: The Intervention of the United States in Postwar Modernism -- Europe: East and West at the Watershed of Art History -- Global Art and Minorities: A New Geography of Art History -- The Mirror of Mass Culture: Art's Revolt against Art History -- The Temporality of Video Art -- The Narrative of Art in the New Museum: The Search for a Profile -- The End of Art History? -- Art and the Crisis of Modernism -- Art Historiography as Tradition -- Methods and Cames of an Academic Discipline -- Work of Art or History of Art? -- Art History versus Media Studies -- The Myth of Modernism in the Mirror of Art History -- Postmodernism or Posthistory? -- "Prospero's Books" -- Marco Polo and Other Cultures.

Summary:

"So begins Hans Belting's brilliant reconsideration of art and art history at the end of the millennium, which builds upon his earlier and highly successful volume, The End of the History of Art? Belting, "known for his striking and original theories about the nature of art" (the Economist), here examines how art is made, viewed, and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history has built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art. He moves effortlessly between contemporary issues -- the rise of global and minority art and its consequences for Western art history, installation and video art, and the troubled institution of the art museum -- and long-standing questions central to art history's definition of itself, such as the distinction between high and low culture, art criticism versus art history, and the invention of modernism in art history. With Art History after Modernism, Belting retains his place as one of the most original and controversial thinkers in the visual arts today"--Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226041840 (alk. paper)
9780226041841 (alk. paper)
0226041859 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226041858 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Art criticism Historiography.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern.
Art Historiographie.
Critique d'art Historiographie.
Art 20e siècle.
20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences.
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Postmodernisme.
Arte moderna (história e crítica) Século 20.
Historiographie.
Histoire de l'art.
Critique d'art.
Art.

Form/genre:

Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231124
Call No.: N380 .B4 2003
Status: Available