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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anger, Jenny (Contribuidor), Brennan, Marcia (Contribuidor), Brzyski, Anna (Contribuidor, Editor ), Cutting, James (Contribuidor), Duro, Paul (Contribuidor), Elkins, James (Contribuidor), Jaffee, Barbara (Contribuidor), Jensen, Robert (Contribuidor), Ju, Jane C. (Contribuidor), Kjellman-Chapin, Monica (Contribuidor), McGee, Julie (Contribuidor), Smith, Terry (Contribuidor), Stone-Ferrier, Linda (Contribuidor), Stratigakos, Despina (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2007]
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  • 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