Includes bibliographical references and index Stephen Melville and Bill Readings: pt. 1. General introduction Stephen Melville and Bill Readings: pt. 1.General introduction Stephen Melville: pt. 2. Basic concepts of art history Griselda Pollock: Beholding art history: vision, place and power Michael Ann Holly: Past looking John Tagg: A discourse (with shape of reason missing) Irit Rogoff: The aesthetics of post-history: a German perspective Bill Readings: pt. 3. How obvious is art?: Kitsch and the semiotician Mieke Bal: Reading the gaze: the construction of gender in "Rembrandt" Norman Bryson: Philostratus and the imaginary museum Louis Marin -- Armour Fou: Topic and figures of enunciation: is it myself that I paint Fran(c)ʹoise Luchert: pt. 4. The pen and the eye: the politics of the gazing body John Bender: Impersonal violence: the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams Peter de Bolla: The visibility of visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the viewer Bennet Schaber: pt. 5. Vision procured Rosalind Krauss: In the master's bedroom Martin Jay: Photo-unrealism: the contribution of the camera in the crisis of ocularcentrism Victor Burgin.: Chance encounters: Fl(c)Øneur and Detraqu(c)♭e in Breton's Nadja Stephen Melville: pt. 2.Basic concepts of art history Griselda Pollock: Beholding art history: vision, place and power Michael Ann Holly: Past looking John Tagg: A discourse (with shape of reason missing) Irit Rogoff: The aesthetics of post-history: a German perspective Bill Readings: pt. 3.How obvious is art?: Kitsch and the semiotician Mieke Bal: Reading the gaze: the construction of gender in "Rembrandt" Norman Bryson: Philostratus and the imaginary museum Louis Marin: Topic and figures of enunciation: is it myself that I paint Françoise Luchert: pt. 4.The pen and the eye: the politics of the gazing body John Bender: Impersonal violence: the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams Peter de Bolla: The visibility of visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the viewer Bennet Schaber: pt. 5.Vision procured Rosalind Krauss: In the master's bedroom Martin Jay: Photo-unrealism: the contribution of the camera in the crisis of ocularcentrism Victor Burgin.: Chance encounters: Flâneur and Detraquée in Breton's Nadja |
