Contents
Art History after Aesthetics: A Provocative Introduction
Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg
1. Ecstatic Aesthetics: Metaphoring Bernini
Mieke Bal
2. Before the Image, Before Time: The Sovereignty of Anachronism
Georges Didi-Huberman
3. Aesthetics before Art: Leonardo through the Looking Glass
Claire Farago
4. Touching the Face: The Ethics of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self-Portrait
Renée van de Vall
5. Presence and Absence: On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist
Robert Zwijnenberg
6. Rococo as the Dissipation of Boredom
F. R. Ankersmit
7. Mourning and Method
Michael Ann Holly
8. A Guide to Interpretation: Art-Historical Hermeneutics
Oskar Bätschmann
9. Seeing Soane Seeing You
Donald Preziosi
Contributors
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Art criticism, Art and history, Visual perception