Art History and Its Institutions

Abstract

Part 1 Putting art history in its place: art history and modernism, Elizabeth Mansfield hearing the unsaid - art history, museology, and the composition of the self, Donald Preziosi from Boullee to Bilbao - the museum as Utopian space, Andrew McClellan Marburg, Harvard and purpose-built architecture art history, Kathryn Bush Viollet-le-Duc and Taine at the Ecole des Beaux Arts - on the first professorship of art history in France, Philip Hotchkiss Walsh colonizing culture - the origins of art history in Australia, Jacqueline Strecker. Part 2 Instituting a canon - placing the centre and margins of art history: deep innovation and mere eccentricity - six case studies of innovation in art history, David Carrier the taste of angels in the art of darkness - fashioning the canon of African art, Christopher B. Steiner tradesmen as scholars - interdependencies in the study and exchange of art, Ivan Gaskell how canons disappear - the case of Henri Regnault Marc Gottlieb using art history - the Louvre and its public persona, 1848-52, Gabriel Weisberg silent movies - on excluding the ethnographic subject from the discourse of art, Claire Farago art history on the academic fringe - Taine's philosophy of art, Mary Morton. Part 3 The practice of art history - discourse and method as institution for connoisseurs - the Burlington Magazine, 1903-1911, Helen Rees Leahy photographic perspectives - photography and the institutional formation of art history, Frederick N. Bohrer instituting genius - the formation of biographical art history in France, Greg M. Thomas a preponderance of practical problems - the history of art in the United States between 1886 and 1888, Eric Rosenberg emancipation and the freed in American sculpture - race, representation and the beginnings of African-American art history, Steven Nelson