Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. A variety of interpretations: a preview
3. Hegel and the birth of art history
4. Connoisseurship
5. Formalism: Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl
6. Iconography – Iconology: Erwin Panofsky
7. Marxism and the social history of art
8. Feminism
9. Psychoanalysis
10. Semiotics
11. Postcolonialism
12. Conclusion

About the Author

Michael Hatt is Head of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Visiting Professor in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. Charlotte Klonk is a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin