The Methodologies of Art

The methodologies of art history and artistic analysis reflect different ways of interpreting art. Since all works of art are expressions of their maker and their culture and are also dependent on their medium, each work is complex and may have multiple levels of meaning.This book surveys the main methodologies used in artistic analysis: formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, semiotics (structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction), and psychoanalysis. By the author of Art and Psychoanalysis. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.