Grounds Of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics And The Discursive Field (communications & Culture)

Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction/Opening....Pages 1-39 Art History and Difference....Pages 40-47 Should Art Historians Know Their Place?....Pages 48-56 Articulating Cultural Politics: Marxism, Feminism and the Canon of Art....Pages 57-61 Practising Theories: an Interview with Joanne Lukitsh....Pages 62-96 The Proof of the Picture....Pages 97-114 Totalled Machines: Criticism, Photography and Technological Change....Pages 115-133 The Discontinuous City: Picturing and the Discursive Field....Pages 134-156 Postmodernism and the Born-Again Avant-Garde....Pages 157-169 Globalisation, Totalisation and the Logic of Discourse....Pages 170-175 Occupied Territories: Tracking the Work of Rudolf Baranik....Pages 176-182 The Pachuco’s Flayed Hide: Mobility, Identity and Buenas Garras....Pages 183-202 Back Matter....Pages 203-219 Collection of essays on topics ranging from space in theory to the institutional spaces of art history, from the field of picturing in the nineteenth-century city to the terrain of avant-garde, and from rogues' galleries to the root suit. Common themes are the production and circulation of meanings and their relation to cultural technologies and to questions of power and resistance Looks at art history as it relates to cultural politics and practices. The book itself begins with art as it developed its historical perspective in 1985 and journeys through Marxist and feminist influences, photography and technological change, the discursive field and post-modernism.