ART HISTORY A critical introduction to its methods MICHAEL HATT and CHARLOTTE KLONK MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS Manchester and New York Aisribated exclusively in the USA by PalgraveCopyright © Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk 2006 ‘The right of Michael Hatt and Charloste Klonk to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Publised by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester 1113 9x, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, xy 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.tk Distributed exclusively inthe USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, Nx soo10, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada vor iz2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 0 7190°6958 0 hardback EAN 978 © 7190 69581 IS8N 0 7190 6959 9 paperback EAN 978 0 7190 69598 Fitst published 2006 14 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 109876543 ‘Typesce in Centaur by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed in Great Britain by CPI, BathList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE A variety of interpretations: a preview Hegel and the birth of art history Hegel’s philosophy of art Hegel’s art history Critical appraisal Bibliography Connoisscurship Style, manner and artistic character: Karl Friedrich von Rumohr Rumohr’s art history Giovanni Morelli Morell’s natural history of art Bernard Berenson Berenson's method Critical appraisal Bibliography Formalism: Heinrich Wélfilin and Alois Riegl Formalism Heinrich Walfflin Wolfilin’s art history Alois Riegl Riegl’s art history Critical appraisal Bibliography Iconography—iconology: Erwin Panofsky Panofsky’s theoretical framework Panofeky’s method in action Melancholia Critical appraisal Bibliography 60 1g 8viii Marxism and the social history of art Marxism Marxist art history Social art history Critical appraisal Bibliography PART TWO Feminism Setting the agenda: Nochlin, Parker and Pollock Michel Foucault: discourse and power Gay, lesbian, queer Critical appraisal Bibliography Psychoanalysis Freud on Leonardo Looking and Lacanian analysis Critical appraisal Bibliography Semiotics Saussure Icon, index, symbol; Peirce Semiotics in practice Critical appraisal Bibliography Postcolonialism Edward Said and Orieutalism Hybridity Critical appraisal Bibliography Conclusion Index Contents Ro 122 28 B4 138 140 45 150 157 163 7 174 179 194 236 241 245