Art History and Its Institutions: The Nineteenth Century

by Mansfield,Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415228695
• ISBN10: 0415228697
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Art History and Its Institutionsfocuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundation in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labor organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions, considering their impact on movements such as modernism, their role in conveying or denying legitimacy, and their impact of defining the parameters of the discipline.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Notes on contributors	x
Introduction	1	(8)
Elizabeth Mansfield
PART I Putting art history in its place	9	(104)
Art history and modernism	11	(17)
Elizabeth Mansfield
Hearing the unsaid: art history, museology, and the composition of the self	28	(18)
Donald Preziosi
From Boullee to Bilbao: the museum as utopian space	46	(19)
Andrew McClellan
Marburg, Harvard, and purpose-built architecture for art history, 1927	65	(20)
Kathryn Brush
Viollet-le-Duc and Taine at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts: on the first professorship of art history in France	85	(15)
Philip Hotchkiss Walsh
Colonizing culture: the origins of art history in Australia	100	(13)
Jacqueline Strecker
PART II Instituting a canon: placing the center and margins of art history	113	(116)
Deep innovation and mere eccentricity: six case studies of innovation in art history	115	(17)
David Carrier
The taste of angels in the art of darkness: fashioning the canon of African art	132	(14)
Christopher B. Steiner
Tradesmen as scholars: interdependencies in the study and exchange of art	146	(17)
Ivan Gaskell
How canons disappear: the case of Henri Regnault	163	(15)
Marc Gotlieb
Using art history: the Louvre and its public persona, 1848-52	178	(13)
Gabriel P. Weisberg
Silent moves: on excluding the ethnographic subject from the discourse of art history	191	(24)
Claire Farago
Art history on the academic fringe: Taine's philosophy of art	215	(14)
Mary G. Morton
PART III The practice of art history: discourse and method as institution	229	(86)
``For Connoisseurs'': The Burlington Magazine 1903-11	231	(15)
Helen Rees Leahy
Photographic perspectives: photography and the institutional formation of art history	246	(14)
Frederick N. Bohrer
Instituting genius: the formation of biographical art history in France	260	(11)
Greg M. Thomas
A preponderance of practical problems: discourse institutionalized and the history of art in the United States between 1876 and 1888	271	(12)
Eric Rosenberg
Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture: race, representation, and the beginnings of an African American history of art	283	(12)
Steven Nelson
Art photography, history, and aesthetics	295	(20)
Catherine M. Soussloff
Index	315