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Danto thinks that the development of art history was over in 1964, because Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" appeared. We can no longer make a distinction between this work of art and the real Brillo Box, which is just a commonplace object. However, the end of art does not mean we cannot make art anymore, nor does it mean that art has lost its value. It just means the concept of art is exhausted. No new style of art can emerge. There is no direction for art history to go on. Danto told us that there are two consequences of the end of art. One is we can find the essence of art and define art in terms of non-manifest properties. The other is pluralism. / Danto was influenced by Hegel's view of art history, he used "self understanding of art" to interpret the development of art, and he thought that the development of modernist art is to find out the essence of art. The end of art means that art can no longer understands itself, it should pass this mission to philosophy. Although generally speaking I agree with that the interpretation of art history given by Danto, I think the end of modernism does not necessarily mean the end of art, and also there is no need to interpret the development of modernist art only from the perspective of seeking the essence of art. Moreover, I do not accept the definition proposed by Danto. I want to argue that we can define art when there is no essence. Besides discussing the problems of the end of art and the definition of art, I have also discussed problems that are related to pluralism, such as evaluation of art and postmodernism. / 梁光耀. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 178-182). / Adviser: Chang Yuan Liu. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0599. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 178-182). / Liang Guangyao.

The aim of this thesis is to explore and evaluate the scientific work of art historian Rudolf Chadraba who is generally considered to be one of the founders and the most distinctive representatives of an iconological method in czech art history. The Master's thesis doesn't make efforts to survey Chadraba's scientific career from biographic point of view in a clearly and chronologically way, because the main focus of the interpretation lies on starting points of Chadraba's work, specific influences on him, particular motifs and themes, which are penetrating and reflected in his academical works of art historian and which therefore form his peculiar method. Biographical information about Rudolf Chadraba is introduced here only briefly, the text tends to point out Chadraba's transdisciplinary approach and his extensive conception of iconology. Moreover, it pays a lot of attention to influences of such personalities as Max Dvořák, Ladislav Cejp, Alois Dempf, Josef Strzygowski or Herbert Read, who represent important source of inspiration in Chadraba's scientific work. Theories and methods of these scholars in connection with Chadraba's interest in tradition and triumphalism in christian art initiated his pursuing parallels between european and oriental art, which were insufficiently employed in czech art...

Orientador: Claudia Valladão de Mattos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T05:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amaro_DanielleRodrigues_M.pdf: 2724831 bytes, checksum: ba445fe792f0d59aced61715452e802b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Percursos e percalços: o fim da história da arte segundo Hans Belting propõe uma reflexão sobre a tese do fim da história da arte desenvolvida ao longo de duas décadas pelo historiador da arte, o alemão Hans Belting (1935). Tendo em vista o contexto no qual emerge, seus pontos fundamentais e, particularmente, a recepção dessa tese no contexto brasileiro, o estudo apresenta-se a partir de três eixos. O primeiro deles é uma análise do lugar do discurso, contextualizando a tese de Hans Belting não apenas com a conjuntura histórica na qual estava imerso, mas iluminando-a com a tradição germânica historiográfica da arte da qual é herdeiro. O segundo eixo pretende analisar a tese a partir de pontos que se consideram fundamentais para a compreensão de sua obra: a história da arte como um enquadramento; a história da arte como produto moderno; a crise da história da arte como ciência européia. Por fim, pretende-se mapear a recepção da obra de Belting especificamente no contexto brasileiro, relacionando tal recepção com o atual estado da história da arte no Brasil / Abstract: Paths and pitfalls: the end of the history of art by Hans Belting proposes a reflection about the theory of the end of art history developed over two decades by the art historian, German Hans Belting (1935). Given the context in which it emerge, its crucial points and particularly the reception of this thesis in Brazilian context, the study will be presented from three axes. The first is an analysis of the place of the speech, contextualizing that thesis of Hans Belting not only with the historical context in which they were immersed, but illuminating it with the Germanic traditional art historiography. The second axis aims to examine the thesis from points which are considered fundamental to understanding his work: the history of art as a framework, the history of art as modern product, the crisis in the history of art as a science in Europe. To finish, we intend to map the reception of the work of Belting in Brazilian context, relating this reception with the current state of art history in Brazil / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestre em Artes

This dissertation offers a wide-ranging examination of the half-length sacred figure over the door in medieval and early Renaissance Italian art. Drawing on a wealth of visual material that has attracted little attention among scholars, it argues that such images played a vital role in the religious lives of their beholders, transforming doorways into sites of devotional experience both within and beyond the church. Depicted incompletely, the holy body joined with the threshold below it to form a synthetic, composite image, one that invited the imaginative and corporeal participation of the viewer. This project employs various lenses to interpret the meaning and function of works about which scant written documentation comes down to us. In addition to considering scriptural metaphor and exegetical thought regarding the significance of doors, it explores the relationship of overdoor frescoes, mosaics, and reliefs to sacred icon panels, suggesting that the former might be recognized as wall icons, possessive of a heightened devotional appeal. It also uses overdoor images to illuminate broader spiritual and artistic concerns, including the nature of passage to the Christian afterlife, and the interaction between picture and frame, a topic central to Renaissance illusionism. Serving as an introduction to an important yet overlooked aspect of Italian visual culture, this text provides a conceptual framework for understanding a vast corpus of images that were essential to everyday piety, and that inflect our view of familiar art historical narratives.

A new literary genre that I call the artist text has emerged on the cultural landscape. Specific to contemporary art, it adapts the strategies used by institutions to historicize artworks. Rather than take up the materiality of language as did writing by earlier conceptual artists, the artist text follows a backwards route into the status of art by adapting genealogical method and disallowing the objective distance necessary for historicization. The four artists that epitomize this genre are Seth Price, Bernadette Corporation, Tan Lin, and Sturtevant. Each chapter is an analysis of texts by these artists. The artist text illustrates that artists are not only interested in producing art for distribution within institutions and markets, but also in actively intervening in—and even controlling—their audience’s engagement with art history.

My dissertation looks at a pivotal point in the history of the news image (c.1840 to 1860), when wood engraving and steam-powered printing presses transformed the genre into a mass medium that reached hundreds of thousands of readers. Using the format of the monograph and the work of French artist Constantin Guys, I argue that despite the advent of photography and other reproductive visual techniques, drawing formed the backbone of the new authority of the mass-produced news image. To make this case, I locate Guys’s drawings within a wide range of other tactics of transcription that made the printing of text and image possible––including stenography and printing telegraphy––to contextualize the strange persistence of this manual medium within the increasingly mechanized armature of the illustrated newspaper. As a study of the formation of trust in the news image at a moment of momentous technological change, my project identifies a vital origin point for pressing questions related to the truth and objectivity of the news in our contemporary moment, and places mid-nineteenth-century drawing at its center.

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This dissertation studies the critical reception of Hilma af Klint trough three exhibitions: Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890-1985 (Los Angeles, 1986), Secret Pictures by Hilma af Klint, (Helsinki, 1988) and Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction (Stockholm, 2013), addressing the crucial prominent figures and voices in the discursive field around af Klint. The aim is carried out through the Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough, coupled with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the cultural field and habitus. Judith Butler's theory of gender performance completes the theoretical framework by addressing issues of gender in both af Klint's practice as well as in the analysed critical reviews. The thesis examines how the discourses about af Klint changed during different periods of time in the 1980s and the 2010s. The central hypothesis is that this case study can be used as an example to see how the art field presents women artists as a marginal phenomenon instead of including them in the general art historical canon. But the reception of af Klint cannot be fully understood through the lens of gender; thus, e.g. the closeness to the occult is considered both as a leading mechanism in the artistic practice, creating interest towards af Klint, and as an identity which pushes her to the marginal. The results of this study lead to a better understanding of critical articles' role in the cultural phenomena's narrative creation.