Materialist art history and its points of difficulty

• Autores: Hollis Clayson
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 3, 1995, págs. 366-371
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a symposium on the relation between art and history. The writer addresses some questions with regard to a materialist art history. She points out that her fundamental premise is that a visual artifact must be interpreted or explained in terms of factors external to it. She focuses on what she considers seven points of extreme difficulty for materialists as they attempt to adjudicate the relations between art and history, to maneuver between the cultural and the material. These points, which she divides into difficulties for a historical discipline and challenges to practitioners, are concerned with such issues as objectivity, the incommensurability of the textual and the material, an artist's link to his work, the addition of women's and gender studies to art history, and finding a voice in writing and professing art history.