Art and Thought

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism. She is series editor of New Interventions in Art History, Blackwell Companions to Art History, and Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. Her recent publications include The Metropolis and its Image (Blackwell, 1999), Re-presenting the Metropolis (2000), Reading Architectural History (2002), and Very Short Introduction to Art History (2003). Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. She is author of Alois Reigl: Art History and Theory (1993) and Mary Kelly (with Homi Bhabha and Douglass Crimp, 1997). She has published several essays on psychoanalytic art theory, many of which will be collected in the forthcoming volume, Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

• Notes on Contributors. Series Editor's Preface.Editors Introduction.1. Aristotle, Titian and Tragic Painting (Thomas Puttfarken).2. Wax, Brick and Bread: Apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting (Jay Bernstein).3. Kant and Aesthetic Imagination (Michael Podro).4. Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history (Amelia Jones).5. Art Works, Utterances and Things (Alex Potts).6. Art and the Ethical: Modernism and the problem of minimalism (Jonathan Vickery).7. How can we think the Feminine, Aesthetically (Griselda Pollock).8. What was Postminimalism (Stephen Melville).9. Museum as Work in the Age of Technological Display: Reading Heidegger through Tate Modern (Diarmuid Costello).10. Thought and Art (Adrian Rifkin).Bibliography.Index.

"Smart and savvy contribution to a list of recent anthologies that work at putting the spirit back into art history. Reading so many lively voices talking about why art still matters is both a serious pursuit and a pleasurable pastime." Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute