Partisan Canons /
Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both histo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2007]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Canons and Art History
- 1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art
- 2. Canon and Globalization in Art History
- 3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon
- 4. Imitation and Authority: The Creation of the Academic Canon in French Art, 1648-1870
- 5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics
- 6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit: Gender Battles in the Werkbund's Canonization of National Style
- 7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon: Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefe's Modern Art
- 8. The Multiple Masculinities of Canonical Modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s
- 9. "Gardner" Variety Formalism: Helen Gardner and Art through the Ages
- 10. The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre
- 11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist
- 12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art History's (Ir)Relevance
- 13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art
- 14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index