ABSTRACT
Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour 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 on defining the parameters of the discipline.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I PUTTING ART HISTORY IN ITS PLACE
chapter 5|15 pages
VIOLLET-LE-DUC AND TAINE AT THE ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS
On the first professorship of art history in France
part |2 pages
PART II Instituting a canon: placing the center and margins of art history
chapter 7|17 pages
Deep innovation and mere eccentricity: six case studies of innovation in art history D AV I D CARRIER
Six case studies of innovation in art history
chapter 12|24 pages
SILENT MOVES
On excluding the ethnographic subject from the discourse of art history
part |2 pages
PART III The practice of art history: discourse and method as institution
chapter 14|15 pages
“For Connoisseurs”: The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine Helen Rees Leahy
chapter 15|14 pages
PHOTOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES
Photography and the institutional formation of art history
chapter 16|11 pages
Instituting genius: the formation of biographical art history in France
The formation of biographical art history in France INTRODUCTION: BIOGRAPHICAL ART HISTORY
chapter 17|12 pages
A PREPONDERANCE OF PRACTICAL PROBLEMS
Discourse institutionalized and the history of art in the United States between 1876 and 1888
chapter 18|12 pages
EMANCIPATION AND THE FREED IN AMERICAN SCULPTURE
Race, representation, and the beginnings of an African American history of art
