Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field - Softcover

Tagg, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333557409 ISBN 13: 9780333557402

Publisher: Palgrave HE UK, 1992

Synopsis

This new collection of essays does not propose to outline a synthetic theory of culture, but traces a path from the methodological debates that coalesced in art history and cultural studies in the late 1970s to the more recent concern with institutions of meaning, identity and power. The radically discontinuous nature of these disciplines compels their continual renegotiation, and it is these 'grounds of dispute' that mark the shifting spaces of cultural politics. 'This is an important book by a scholar of international stature...consistently brilliant, attractive, and compelling.' Richard Leppert

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The impact of recent cultural theory has transformed the territory of traditional disciplines in the humanities including the methods and objects of the history, sociology and criticism of art. In this series 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 the avant-garde, and from rogues' galleries to the zoot suit, John Tagg argues that the consequences of such theorizing are not just negative.

About the Author:

John Tagg is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Macros, California, and author of The Learning Paradigm College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave HE UK
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0333557409
• ISBN 13: 9780333557402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232