An introduction to the historiography and theory of the history of art. 48 half-tones.

Introduction; 1. Immanuel Kant and the bo(a)rders of art history Mark A. Cheetham; 2. Art history's hegelian unconscious: naturalism as nationalism in the otherlandish painting Keith Moxey; 3. Spirits and ghosts in the historiography of art Michael Ann Holly; 4. Seeing signs: the use of semiotics for the understanding of visual art Mieke Bal; 5. The politics of feminist art history Patricia Mathews; 6. Homesexualism, gay and lesbian studies and queer theory in art history Whitney Davis; 7. Phenomenology and the limits of hermeneutics Stephen Melville; 8. Deconstruction and photography David Philips; 9. The work of art and its beholder: the methodology and aesthetic of reception Wolfgang Kemp; 10. Between art history and psychoanalysis: the methodology of the aesthetic of reception Steven Z. Levine; 11. Passing between art history and post-colonial theory James D. Herbert; 12. Art history and museums Stephen Bann; 13. Museums and galleries as sites for artistic intervention Gerald McMaster; 14. Art history's significant other ... film studies Bruce Barber; 15. Interpreting the void: architecture and spatial anxiety Anthony Vidler; 16. Computer applications for art history Willam Vaughan.