Eric Fernie, Art History and Its Methods a Critical Anthology

Abstract

Introduction: A History of Methods -- From Antiquity to the Renaissance: Piecemeal Beginnings -- The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Biographies -- The Eighteenth Century: Cultural History, and the Cycle -- The Nineteenth Century: Empiricism, Metaphysics and Cultural History -- The Early Twentieth Century: Responses to Modernism -- The Mid-Twentieth Century: Cumulative Variety -- The Late Twentieth Century: New Art Histories -- The Present: Versatility and Potential -- 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.