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Partisan Canons
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2007
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Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.
Author / Editor information
Anna Brzyski is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Kentucky.
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“Anna Brzyski’s anthology Partisan Canons fills a long-recognized need in the literature on the history of art. The essays in this volume approach the canon of works of art on which the discipline is built from a variety of perspectives: how did it come about, on what principles is it built, does it have universal validity? These thoughtful and probing texts promise to afford art historians and others insight into one of the most deeply naturalized values of this profession.”—Keith Moxey, author of The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History
“The subject of canons, a long-standing problem in literary studies, makes an impressive art historical debut in this authoritative collection of essays, which gathers together some of the most important critical voices in the contemporary study of the visual arts. Partisan Canons makes an important contribution to the discussion of values, power, and the social construction of artistic traditions.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, editor of Critical Inquiry and author of What Do Pictures Want?
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: Canons and Art History
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1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art
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2. Canon and Globalization in Art History
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3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon
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4. Imitation and Authority: The Creation of the Academic Canon in French Art, 1648–1870
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5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics
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6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit: Gender Battles in the Werkbund’s Canonization of National Style
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7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon: Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefe’s Modern Art
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8. The Multiple Masculinities of Canonical Modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s
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9. “Gardner” Variety Formalism: Helen Gardner and Art through the Ages
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10. The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre
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11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist
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12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art History’s (Ir)Relevance
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13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art
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14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity
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Bibliography
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About the Contributors
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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October 8, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822390374
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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376
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38 illustrations, 8 tables
