1st Edition

Making Art History A Changing Discipline and its Institutions

Edited By Elizabeth Mansfield Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational corporations. The text is split into four thematic sections, each of which begins with a... Read more

Part 1: Border Patrols: Art History as Identity Introduction  Part 2: The Subjects of Art History Introduction  Part 3: Instituting Art History Introduction  Part 4: Old Masters, New Institutions: Art History and the Museum Introduction 

Biography

Elizabeth C. Mansfield is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of the South. Her research focuses on art historiography and European art of the 18th and 19th centuries. She edited and contributed to Art History and Its Institutions (2002).

The consistently high-quality contributions link principles and assumptions that have structured art historical study with current dilemmas and developments.

--Priyanka Basu, University of Southern California