Cargando…

Art History : Its Use and Abuse.

These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, W. McAllister
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ART HISTORY IN TRANSLATION
  • 1 RESEARCH
  • Research and Factors Conditioning Research
  • Research: From Great Expectations to Bleak House
  • The Research Process: Hard Times and Great Expectations
  • Readers, Reading, and Institutional Relations
  • Archives and Their Denizens
  • Treasures and Trash: Art and Its Literature through the Ages
  • The Usual Books of Reference
  • Dictionaries and Lexica
  • Some 'Determining' Studies
  • Collected Essays and Commemorative Volumes
  • Transcribed Lectures
  • Periodicals and Series
  • 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • On Bibliography
  • Bibliographies
  • Form and Function in Historical Writing
  • Periodical Catalogues
  • Some Indexes to Specific Periodicals
  • A Selection among Institutional Catalogues
  • Some Indispensable Titles
  • Some Notable Approaches to Subject
  • The Corpus: A Representative Selection
  • Auction and Exhibition Catalogues
  • Theoretical and Practical Literature on Exhibitions
  • Canadiana
  • 3 WRITING
  • On Quality in Writing
  • The Writing of Art History
  • Choosing and Developing a Topic
  • Taking Note
  • Assumptions
  • On Imitation and Emulation in Art History
  • The Mechanization of Art History
  • Scaling Up and Scaling Down
  • Scholarly Generosity
  • When Writing for Periodical Publication
  • Reviewers and Reviewing
  • Diminished Powers, or a Sense of Proportion
  • Night Thoughts
  • 4 UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC LIFE
  • Seminars and Pro-Seminars
  • Theses and Dissertations
  • Academic Alienation
  • Public Lectures
  • The Student's Emergency Kit for Notation
  • 'Abbreviated Reference' in Archaeology and Art History
  • Reference and Notation
  • Describing the Work of Art
  • Full Bibliographical Reference
  • Architectural Reference
  • Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Prints and Drawings
  • Photographic Sources and Reproductions.
  • The Bibliography and Its Intellectual Uses
  • 5 CATALOGUING THEORY
  • On Cataloguing and Some Unrelated Matters
  • Half-a-Dozen Heresies Mainly Regarding Collections, Exhibitions, and Catalogues
  • Describing a Work of Art
  • The Catalogue Raisonné
  • 6 CATALOGUING PRACTICE
  • Catalogues: The Search for Form
  • Temporary (Loan) Exhibitions
  • Permanent-Collection Catalogues
  • Some Informational and Notational Problems
  • Visitors, Guides, and Installation Shots
  • Models
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.