The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History
ISBN: 9781501729027
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Art -- Historiography; Deconstruction -- Influence; Art criticism -- Methodology;

Many art historians regard poststructuralist theory with suspicion; some even see its focus on the political dimension of language as hostile to an authentic study of the past. Keith Moxey bridges the gap between historical and theoretical...


Keith Moxey is the author of books including Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation. He is Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University.

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