The methodologies of art

This book surveys the main methodologies used in artistic analysis: formal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism, biography and autobiography, semiotics (structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction), and psychoanalysis. Various works of art are considered from the different methodologies discussed. There are 70 black-and-white illustrations integrated with the text, 4 plates in color, notes, a bibliography, and an index.