{"title":"2. Writing art history","authors":"D. Arnold","doi":"10.1093/actrade/9780192801814.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192801814.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"‘Writing art history’ looks at how histories of art have been written in Europe and North America and the effect that this has had on the object itself and on the subjects of art history. Discussing the work of influential art historians Pliny the Elder, Giorgio Vasari, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Jacob Burckhardt, Ernst Gombrich, and Clement Greenberg, it introduces the expectations we have of art history as a chronological story about great Western male artists. Complementary to this gender bias is the impact of the writing of women art historians such as Griselda Pollock and Linda Nochlin. They have mapped out a different way of seeing and understanding cultural production and the social relationships expressed therein.","PeriodicalId":177300,"journal":{"name":"Art History: A Very Short Introduction","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128716650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1. What is art history?","authors":"D. Arnold","doi":"10.1093/actrade/9780198831808.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198831808.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"‘What is art history?’ discusses the term art history and draws distinctions between it and art appreciation and art criticism. It also considers the range of artefacts included in the discipline and how these have changed over time. The work of art is our primary evidence, and it is our interaction between this evidence and methods of enquiry that forms art history. Art appreciation and criticism are also linked to connoisseurship. Although art is a visual subject, we learn about it through reading and we convey our ideas about it mostly in writing. The social and cultural issues articulated by art history are examined through an analysis of four very different works of art.","PeriodicalId":177300,"journal":{"name":"Art History: A Very Short Introduction","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128889668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}