Art history aesthetics visual studies.

From the "blurb" :
"Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. Based on the 2001 Clark Conference, "Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies" explores both the connections and divergences among these three modes of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Have art history and visual studies anything to learn from one another? Where do ideas about the aesthetic begin and end, both in the academy and in the museum? Fifteen eminent scholars critically examine the relationships among art history, aesthetics, and visual studies from their founding moments through their contemporary practices."
Contents :
1.Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey: Introduction ;
Part One: In Time :
2. Irene J. Winter: Defining "Aesthetics" for Non-Western Studies: The Case of Ancient Mesopotamia ;
3. Kobena Mercer: Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century ;
4. Karen Lang: Chaos and Cosmos: Points of View in Art History and Aesthetics ;
5. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: National Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Aesthetic Judgments in the Historiography of Art ;
Part Two: Out of Time :
6. Philip Fisher: Darkness and the Demand for Time in Art ;
7. Jonathan Gilmore: Censorship, Autonomy, and Artistic Form ;
8. Michael Kelly: Danto and Krauss on Cindy Sherman ;
9. Griselda Pollock: The Aesthetics of Difference ;
10. Ivan Gaskell: Recollections of Rembrandt's Jeremiah ;
Part Three: With Time :
11. Nicholas Mirzoeff: Ghostwriting: Working Out Visual Culture ;
12. Stephen Melville: "Theory," Discipline, and Institution ;
13. Hal Foster: Dialectics of Seeing ;
14. W. J.T.Mitchell: Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture ;
15. David Carrier: Current Issues in Art History, Aesthetics, and Visual Studies ;
16. Janet Wolff: Mixing Metaphors and Talking about Art ;
Contributors.