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A realist theory of art history /
"As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified, multi-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Colección: | Ontological explorations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; The institutions of art history; Breaking the theory-empiricism dichotomy; Depoliticizing epistemology; Suspicion of the aesthetic; 2 What is realism?; The need for Critical Realism; Untying the Gordian Knot; Meta-theory, discipline-specific meta-theory, theory, methodology; Ontological realism; Epistemological fallibilism; The stratification of the world; Critical naturalism; Ontology and emancipation; 3 A relational approach to history and truth
- The ontological project
- relational determinationHistorical pluralism; Scales and facets in history; Shapes of history (fiat objects); Do scale and facet really interlock?; Reference and historical truth; 4 Structure and knowledge; Properties of historical periods; Properties of past historiographical practices; Traditional mode
- affirmation; Exemplary mode
- regularity; Genetic mode
- transformation; Speculative philosophy of history; The work of art history as a literary document; 5 Art history and varieties of history, I; Understanding and explanation; Society and culture
- General and special historySpecial history; Style; The centrality of definition in special history; An example: the history of philosophy; The problem of periodization; 6 Art history and varieties of history, II; "Directions" of inquiry; Causality and the arrow of time; Sequential history
- what happened?; Explanatory history
- what caused it?; Interpretive history
- what was it like?; Direction of inquiry as emplotment; A case study; The ontology of ideology; A case study; 7 Historical evidence; Fact and interpretation; Facts; Facts as the cause of research; Warrant for belief
- A case study: reconstructing Duccio's Maestà8 Resolving historical controversies; Levels and facets of explanation; A case study: Caravaggio; Disputing a definition of an object of study; A case study: Caravaggio again; Description, description, description; Progress in art history; Reflexivity in art history; Notes; Bibliography; Index