The Courtauld Institute of Art
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| - | '''Block''' ([[1979]] - [[1989]]) was a journal in the developing fields of [[visual culture]] and [[cultural studies]] published at [[Middlesex Polytechnic]]. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the work of contemporary artists, and bring the concerns of cultural and critical theory, particularly [[feminist theory|feminist]] and [[post-colonial]] theory, to the study of art and design history. Contributors included [[Jon Bird]], [[Barry Curtis]], [[Philippa Goodall]], [[Frank Hannah]], [[Dick Hebdige]], [[Lucy Lippard]], [[Kathy Myers]], [[Fred Orton]], [[Claire Pajaczkowska]], [[Griselda Pollock]], [[Tim Putnam]], [[Lisa Tickner]], and [[Judith Williamson]]. | + | The '''Courtauld Institute of Art''' is a self-governing college of the [[University of London]] specialising in the study of the [[history of art]]. |
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| - | :<I>Block</I> was one of the journals contributing to new methods of study in [[art history]]. The journal's editors, who were teachers of art, art history, or theory, acknowledged a crisis in the principles and methods of traditional art history. ... What was the problem in traditional art history? Since [[Alois Riegl]] (1858-1905) and [[Heinrich Wolfflin]] (1864-1945) grounded art history during the first two decades of this century in the [[Formalism|formal analysis of art]], art history has been isolated from the other [[social sciences|social]] and historical sciences. ... <I>.Block</I> indirectly resisted the practices of authoritative institutes such as the [[Warburg Institute]] or the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]] in London. --Yisoon Kim , 1994 | + | |
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| - | == External links == | + | |
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| - | *http://www.sculpture.pe.kr/block.html | + | |
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The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art.
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