Art History and Its Institutions: The Nineteenth Century [Paperback]

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.Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundation in the nineteenth century.PART I: PUTTING ART HISTORY IN ITS PLACE 1. Art History and Modernism Elizabeth Mansfield 2. Hearing the Unsaid: Art History, Museology, and the Composition of the Self Donald Preziosi 3. From Boullee to Bilbao: The Museum as Utopian Space Andrew McClellan 4. Marburg, Harvard and Purpose-Built Architecture for Art History Kathryn Bush 5. Viollet-le-Duc and Taine at the Ecole des Beaux Arts: On the First Professorship of Art History in France Philip Hotchkiss Walsh 6. Colonizing Culture: The Origins of Art History in Australia Jacqueline Strecker PART II: INSTITUTING A CANON: PLACING THE CENTER AND MARGINS OF ART HISTORY 7. Deep Innovation and Mere Eccentricity: Six Case Studies of Innovation in Art History David Carrier 8. The Taste of Angels in the Art of Darkness: Fashioning the Canon of African Art Christopher B Steiner 9. Tradesmen as Scholars: Interdependencies in the Study and Exchange of Art Ivan Gaskell 10. How Canons Disappear: The Case of Henri Regnault Marc Gottlieb 11. Using Art History: The Louvre and its Public Persona, 1848-52 Gabriel Weisberg 12. Silent Movies: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art Claire Farago 13. Art History on the Academic Fringe: Taine's Philosophy of Art Mary Morton PART III: THE PRACTICE OF ART HISTORY: DISCOURSE AND METHOD AS INSTITUTION 14. ls.