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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction: Canons and Art History 1
- 1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art 27
- 2. Canon and Globalization in Art History 55
- 3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon 79
- 4. Imitation and Authority: The Creation of the Academic Canon in French Art, 1648–1870 95
- 5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics 115
- 6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit: Gender Battles in the Werkbund’s Canonization of National Style 135
- 7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon: Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefe’s Modern Art 157
- 8. The Multiple Masculinities of Canonical Modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s 179
- 9. “Gardner” Variety Formalism: Helen Gardner and Art through the Ages 203
- 10. The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre 225
- 11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist 245
- 12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art History’s (Ir)Relevance 267
- 13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art 289
- 14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity 309
- Bibliography 327
- About the Contributors 355
- Index 359
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction: Canons and Art History 1
- 1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art 27
- 2. Canon and Globalization in Art History 55
- 3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon 79
- 4. Imitation and Authority: The Creation of the Academic Canon in French Art, 1648–1870 95
- 5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics 115
- 6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit: Gender Battles in the Werkbund’s Canonization of National Style 135
- 7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon: Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefe’s Modern Art 157
- 8. The Multiple Masculinities of Canonical Modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s 179
- 9. “Gardner” Variety Formalism: Helen Gardner and Art through the Ages 203
- 10. The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre 225
- 11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist 245
- 12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art History’s (Ir)Relevance 267
- 13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art 289
- 14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity 309
- Bibliography 327
- About the Contributors 355
- Index 359