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Partisan Canons

Autor Anna Brzyski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2007
Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as a single authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon’s production and maintenance. In these essays art historians explore how, where, why, and by whom canons are formed; how they function under particular circumstances; how they are maintained; and why they may undergo change. Focusing on various moments from the seventeenth century to the present, the contributors cover a broad geographic terrain, encompassing the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan, and South Africa. Topics include examinations of the working and reworking of a canon by an influential nineteenth-century French critic, the limitations placed on what was acceptable as canonical in American textbooks produced during the Cold War, the failed attempt to define a canon of Rembrandt’s works, and the difficulties of constructing an artistic canon in parts of the globe marked by colonialism and the imposition of Eurocentric ideas of artistic value. The essays highlight the diverse factors that affect the production of art canons: market forces and ideological investments in particular aesthetic and political positions, nationalism and ingrained ideas concerning the cultural superiority of particular groups, perceptions of gender and race, artists’ efforts to negotiate their status within particular professional environments, and the dynamics of art history as an academic discipline and discourse. This volume is a call to historicize canons, acknowledging both their partisanship and its implications for the writing of art history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822341062
ISBN-10: 0822341069
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 38 illustrations, 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 165 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Canons and Art History / Anna Brzyski 1
1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art / Robert Jensen 27
2. Canon and Globalization in Art History / James Elkins 55
3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon / James Cutting 79
4. Imitation and Authority: The Creation of the Academic Canon in French Art, 1648-1870 / Paul Duro 95
5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics / Jane C. Ju 115
6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit: Gender Battles in the Werkbund’s Canonization of National Style / Despina Stratigakos 135
7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon: Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefe’s Modern Art / Jenny Anger 157
8. The Multiple Masculinities of Canonical Modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s / Marcia Brennan 179
9. “Gardner” Variety Formalism: Helen Gardener and Art Through the Ages / Barbara Jaffee 203
10. The Rembrandt Research Project: Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre / Linda Stone-Ferrier 225
11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist / Anna Brzyski 245
12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art History’s (Ir)Relevance / Monica Kjellman-Chapin 267
13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art / Julie McGee 289
14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity / Terry Smith 309
Bibliography 327
About the Contributors 355
Index 359

Recenzii

“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?“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

Notă biografică

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"

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Analyses of art history canons from varied perspectives