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]]. |
| + | ==Courtauld Gallery== | ||
| + | :''[[Courtauld Gallery]]'' | ||
| - | :<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 | + | The art collection of the Institute is housed in the Courtauld Gallery. The collection was begun by the founder of the Institute, [[Samuel Courtauld (art collector)|Samuel Courtauld]], who presented an extensive collection of mainly [[Impressionism|French Impressionist]] and [[Post-Impressionism|Post-Impressionist]] paintings in 1932. It was enhanced by further gifts in the 1930s and a bequest in 1948, and has since received many significant donations and bequests. The Gallery contains some 530 paintings and over 26,000 drawings and prints. |
| - | == External links == | ||
| - | *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.
Courtauld Gallery
The art collection of the Institute is housed in the Courtauld Gallery. The collection was begun by the founder of the Institute, Samuel Courtauld, who presented an extensive collection of mainly French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1932. It was enhanced by further gifts in the 1930s and a bequest in 1948, and has since received many significant donations and bequests. The Gallery contains some 530 paintings and over 26,000 drawings and prints.
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