Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 510-565) and index.

Art as history. Lives of the painters, sculptors, and architects / Giorgio Vasari -- Reflections on the imitation of Greek works in painting and sculpture / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Winckelmann divided: mourning the death of art history / Whitney Davis -- Patterns of intention / Michael Baxandall -- Aesthetics. The critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant -- Philosophy of fine art / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Impure mimesis, or the ends of the aesthetic / D. N. Rodowick -- Fetish / William Pietz -- Form, content, style. Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Style / Ernst Gombrich -- Form, nineteenth-century metaphysics, and the problem of art historical description / David Summers -- Style / David Summers -- Anthropology and/as art history. Leading characteristics of the late Roman Kunstwollen / Alois Riegl -- Images from the region of the Pueblo Indians of North America / Aby Warburg -- Warburg's concept of kulturwissenschaft and its meaning for aesthetics / Edgar Wind -- Silent moves: on excluding the ethnographic subject of discourse of art history / Claire Farago -- Mechanisms of meaning. Iconography and iconology: an introduction to the study of the renaissance art / Erwin Panofsky -- Semiotics and iconography / Hubert Damisch -- Semiotics and art history: a discussion of context and senders / Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson -- Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann --

Deconstruction and the limits to interpretation. The temptation of new perspectives / Stephen Melville -- The origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger -- The still life as a personal object: a note on Heidegger and Van Gogh / Meyer Schapiro -- Restitutions of the truth in pointing [pointure] / Jacques Derrida -- Authorship and Identity. What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- The discourse of others: feminists and postmodernism / Craig Owens -- Re-viewing modernist criticism / Mary Kelly -- Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler -- Postmodern automatons / Rey Chow --Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure: beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones -- Queer wallpaper / Jennifer Doyle -- Globalization and its discontents. Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell -- The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan -- The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walter Benjamin -- Can our values be objective? on ethics, aesthetics and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty -- Visual culture studies: questions of history, theory, and practice / Marquard Smith -- Life-like: historicizing process and responsiveness in digital art / María Fernández -- Epilogue: the art of art history / Donald Preziosi -- Plato's dilemma and the tasks of the art historian today.