Studies in Art Historiography
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing focussing on its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods. Besides addressing the major innovators of the past it also encourages re-thinking ways in which the subject may be written in the future. It ignores the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression 'art history' and allows and encourages the full range of enquiry that encompasses the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It welcomes contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation. It complements the work of the Journal of Art Historiography.
Time in the History of Art: Temporality, Chronology and Anachrony
1st Edition
Edited
By Dan Karlholm, Keith Moxey
June 30, 2020
Addressed to students of the image—both art historians and students of visual studies—this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that...
Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-Garde
1st Edition
By Jeremy Howard, Irena Bužinska, Z.S. Strother
June 30, 2020
Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemārs Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, and the Constructivists ...
A Theory of the Tache in Nineteenth-Century Painting
1st Edition
By Øystein Sjåstad
September 11, 2019
Without question, the tache (blot, patch, stain) is a central and recurring motif in nineteenth-century modernist painting. Manet's and the Impressionists’ rejection of academic finish produced a surface where the strokes of paint were presented directly, as patches or blots, then indirectly as ...
Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary: Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire
1st Edition
By Ahmet A. Ersoy
September 11, 2019
While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and experimental moment in western art history, little research has been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvered through the nineteenth century’s vast inventory...
British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840
1st Edition
By Maureen McCue
September 11, 2019
As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections ...
Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Cooke, Nina Lübbren
May 23, 2019
Before Modernism, narrative painting was one of the most acclaimed and challenging modes of picture-making in Western art, yet by the early twentieth century storytelling had all but disappeared from ambitious art. France was a key player in both the dramatic rise and the controversial demise of ...
Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words
1st Edition
By Peter Mack, Robert Williams
April 25, 2018
'The most important art historian of his generation’ is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Baxandall’s work...
Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture
1st Edition
By Katherine Wheeler
February 06, 2018
In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance ...
The Expressionist Turn in Art History: A Critical Anthology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kimberly A. Smith
November 22, 2017
During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which also began to be characterized evocatively as ’expressionist’, yet the notion of an expressionist art history has yet to be fully explored in historiographic studies of the ...
Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations
1st Edition
By Malin Hedlin Hayden
October 12, 2017
Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Important issues were to re-think art as a ...
Circulations in the Global History of Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
May 31, 2017
The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to ...
Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
By Kristel Smentek
May 22, 2017
Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette’s career, this book examines the material ...