Table of Contents

PART I: PUTTING ART HISTORY IN ITS PLACE 1. Art History and Modernism Elizabeth Mansfield 2. Hearing the Unsaid: Art History, Museology, and the Composition of the Self Donald Preziosi 3. From Boullee to Bilbao: The Museum as Utopian Space Andrew McClellan 4. Marburg, Harvard and Purpose-Built Architecture for Art History Kathryn Bush 5. Viollet-le-Duc and Taine at the Ecole des Beaux Arts: On the First Professorship of Art History in France Philip Hotchkiss Walsh 6. Colonizing Culture: The Origins of Art History in Australia Jacqueline Strecker PART II: INSTITUTING A CANON: PLACING THE CENTER AND MARGINS OF ART HISTORY 7. Deep Innovation and Mere Eccentricity: Six Case Studies of Innovation in Art History David Carrier 8. The Taste of Angels in the Art of Darkness: Fashioning the Canon of African Art Christopher B Steiner 9. Tradesmen as Scholars: Interdependencies in the Study and Exchange of Art Ivan Gaskell 10. How Canons Disappear: The Case of Henri Regnault Marc Gottlieb 11. Using Art History: The Louvre and its Public Persona, 1848-52 Gabriel Weisberg 12. Silent Movies: On Excluding the Ethnographic Subject from the Discourse of Art Claire Farago 13. Art History on the Academic Fringe: Taine's Philosophy of Art Mary Morton PART III: THE PRACTICE OF ART HISTORY: DISCOURSE AND METHOD AS INSTITUTION 14. For Connoisseurs: The Burlington Magazine, 1903-1911 Helen Rees Leahy 15. Photographic Perspectives: Photography and the Institutional Formation of Art History Frederick N. Bohrer 15. Instituting Genius: The Formation of Biographical Art History in France Greg M. Thomas 16. A Preponderance of Practical Problems: The History of Art in the United States Between 1886 and 1888 Eric Rosenberg 17. Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture: Race, Representation and the Beginnings of African-American Art History Steven Nelson