Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Jonathan Harris
• Introduction: With Postmodernism Grounded: Prospects for Renewal in Critical Art History
• 1. John Barrell - Dark side of the Landscape
• 2. Albert Boime - Forecasting Belshazzar's Fall
• 3. Paul Smith - 'Real Primitives': Cezanne, Wittgenstein, and the Nature of Aesthetic Quality
• 4. Stephen F. Eisenman - Death and Tourism: Claude Monet's Paintings of VEnice
• 5. T.J Clark - Phenominality and Materiality in Cezanne
• 6. T.J Clark - The End of Left Art History?
• 7. Susanne Baackmann - Prosthetic Illusions of Masculinity: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Fascist Imaginary
• 8. David Craven -Rene Magritte and the Spectre of Commodity Fetishism
• 9. Anne M. Wagner - Three Artists ( Three Women)
• 10. Fred Orton - 'Suspensa Vix Via Fit' Jasper Johns' 'Catenary': The Work of Art and the Art Object; The Everyday Self and the Extraordinary Self
• 11. Alan Wallach - 'Norman Rockwell' at the Guggenheim
• 12. John Tagg - The Capture of Meaning
• 13. Paul Mattick - The Dialectic of Disappointment : Adorno and Art Criticism since the 1980s
• 14. Amelia Jones - 'Every Man Knows Where and How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure': Beauty Discourse and the Logic of Aesthetics
• 15. Brandon Taylor - Virtuosity and Contrivance in the New Sculpture

About the Author

Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History, University of Liverpool.