Art History and Its Methods - a Critical Anthology

Contains excerpts from: "The Lives of the Artists" (1568) - Giorgio Vasari "The Painter's Book" (1604) - Karel van Mander "Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects" (1672) - Giovanni Bellori "The History of Ancient Art" (1764) - Johann Joachim Winckelmann "Of German Architecture" (1772) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Reflections on History" (1872) - Jacob Burckhardt "The Revival of Architecture" (1888) - William Morris "Italian Painters" (1890) - Giovanni Morelli "Late Roman Art Industry" (1901) - Alois Riegl "Principles of Art History" (1915) - Heinrich Wölfflin "Principles of Architectural History" (1914) - Paul Frankl "Vision and Design" (1920) - Roger Fry "The Life of Forms in Art" (1934) - Henri Focillon "The Development of Abstract" (1936) - Alfred H. Barr "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline" (1940) - Erwin Panofsky "An Outline of European Architecture" (1943) - Nikolaus Pevsner "The Philosophy of Art History" (1959) - Arnold Hausner "Against Interpretation" (1964) - Susan Sontag "In Search of Cultural History" (1967) - E. H. Gombrich "In Search of Meaning in African Art" (1973) - William Fagg "The Conditions of Artistic Creation" (1974) - T. J. Clark "Art History, Kunstgeschichte and Historia" (1978) - John Onians "Art History, Art Criticism and Explanation" (1981) - Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison & Mel Ramsden "Interpretation without Representation, or, The Viewing of Las Meninas" (1983) - Svetlana Alpers "The End of the History of Art?" (1984) - Hans Belting "Feminist Interventions in the Histories of Art" (1988) - Griselda Pollock "In the ""Heart of Darkness"" (1993) - Olu Oguibe