| Plates | | ix | |
| Notes on Contributors | | x | |
| Preface | | xvi | |
| Part I: Tradition and the Academy | | 1 | (124) |
| Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory |
| | 3 | (16) |
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| The Classical Concept of Mimesis |
| | 19 | (10) |
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| | 29 | (11) |
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| | 40 | (9) |
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| | 49 | (12) |
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| Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy |
| | 61 | (14) |
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| The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci |
| | 75 | (13) |
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| Academic Theory 1550-1800 |
| | 88 | (16) |
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| Rhetorical Categories in the Academy |
| | 104 | (12) |
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| The Picturesque and its Development |
| | 116 | (9) |
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| Part II: Around Modernism | | 125 | (140) |
| The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel |
| | 127 | (12) |
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| E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel |
| | 139 | (11) |
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| German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory |
| | 150 | (9) |
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| Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial |
| | 159 | (14) |
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| | 173 | (10) |
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| | 183 | (13) |
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| Wittgenstein, Description, and Adrian Stokes (on Cezanne) |
| | 196 | (19) |
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| Modernism and the Idea of the Avant-Garde |
| | 215 | (14) |
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| On the Intention of Modern(ist) Art |
| | 229 | (15) |
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| Anti-Art and the Concept of Art |
| | 244 | (9) |
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| Marcel Duchamp's Readymades and Anti-Aesthetic Reflex |
| | 253 | (12) |
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| Part III: Critical Theory and Postmodernism | | 265 | (144) |
| Marxism and Critical Art History |
| | 267 | (19) |
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| Walter Benjamin and Art Theory |
| | 286 | (6) |
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| Bakhtin and the Visual Arts |
| | 292 | (11) |
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| Peirce's Visuality and the Semiotics of Art |
| | 303 | (14) |
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| | 317 | (10) |
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| | 327 | (10) |
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| | 337 | (12) |
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| | 349 | (11) |
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| What Consciousness Forgets: Lyotard's Concept of the Sublime |
| | 360 | (10) |
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| | 370 | (10) |
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| | 380 | (17) |
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| Psycho-Phallus (Qu'est-ce que c'est?) |
| | 397 | (12) |
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| Part IV: Interpretation and the Institution of Art | | 409 | (96) |
| The Rules of Representation |
| | 411 | (15) |
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| | 426 | (10) |
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| Hermeneutics and Art Theory |
| | 436 | (12) |
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| Reciprocity and Reception Theory |
| | 448 | (10) |
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| The Paradox of Creative Interpretation in Art |
| | 458 | (9) |
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| Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture |
| | 467 | (10) |
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| Against Curatorial Imperialism: Merleau-Ponty and the Historicity of Art |
| | 477 | (10) |
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| The Institutional Theory of Art: Theory and Antitheory |
| | 487 | (18) |
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| Index | | 505 | |
