Allegory
Ambiguity
Anecdote
Art history
Au Bonheur des Dames
Berthe Morisot
Bibliography
Boredom
Bourgeoisie
Caricature
Castration
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Charles Baudelaire
Commodity
Countertop
Courtesan
Criticism
Department store
Depiction
Edgar Degas
Edouard Manet
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Femininity
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist art
Fine art
Griselda Pollock
Iconography
Ideology
Illustration
Impressionism
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Legibility
Leitmotif
Literature
Luncheon in the Studio
Mary Cassatt
Masculinity
Mise en abyme
Modernism
Modernity
Narcissism
Narrative
Oil sketch
Painting
Paul Gauguin
Picture plane
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Post-structuralism
Poster
Prostitution
Psychoanalysis
Rhetoric
Semiotics
Sexual fantasy
Sincerity
Social practice (art)
Subjectivity
Suggestion
Symptom
Syphilis
T. J. Clark (art historian)
The Absinthe Drinker (Manet painting)
Theory
Titian
Uncertainty
Walter Benjamin
Work of art
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691036915
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, each contributor applies to it a different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics. By demonstrating the ways that individual practitioners actually apply the various methodological insights that inform their research, Twelve Views of Manet's "Bar" serves as an excellent introduction to critical methodology as well as a provocative overview for those already familiar with the current discourse of art history. In the process of gaining new insight into Manet's work, and into the discourse of methodology, one discovers that it is not only the individual painting but art history itself that is under investigation. An introduction by Richard Shiff sets the background with a brief history of Manet scholarship and suggestions as to why today's accounts have taken certain distinct directions.
The contributors, selected to provide a broad and balanced range of methodological approaches, include: Carol Armstrong, Albert Boime, David Carrier, Kermit Champa, Bradford R. Collins, Michael Paul Driskel, Jack Flam, Tag Gronberg, James D. Herbert, John House, Steven Z. Levine, and Griselda Pollock.
Bradford R. Collins is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina.
