Chapters in this book

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