The essays collected in Images of Culture address important questions regarding the prospects and pitfalls of an art historical discipline of the 21st century concerned with a cultural historical contextualization of the production and reception of art. This involves not only a re-opening of the question of historical development â beyond traditional philosophies of history â but also re-examines of a range of post-hermeneutical issues, such as: How can art history writing be informed by contemporary artistic and cultural practices? In what way do subjectivity formations and academic approaches to history relate to each other?
