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Making art history : A changing discipline and its institutions / Edited by Elizabeth C. Mansfield. - New York ; London : Routledge, 2007. - xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The call of the canon : why art history cannot do without / Marlite Halbertsma -- From the prophet to postmodernism? New world orders and the end of Islamic art / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Turning green into black, or how I learned to live with the canon / Steven Nelson -- What's in a name? "Flanders," language and the historiography of late medieval art in Belgium since federalization / Gregory T. Clark -- Art history's present tense / Janet Kraynak -- The totality of form : S.J. Freedberg's criticism and Clement Greenberg's history / Eric Rosenberg -- Unmaking art history / Donald Preziosi -- Rhetoric and motive in art history : a shapeshifter's perspective / Christopher Bucklow -- On the institution of limits / Stephen Melville -- Remaking art history : working wonder in the university's ruins / Claire Farago -- Deep innovation and mere eccentricity in Islamic art history / David Carrier -- Art, science, and evolution / Robert O. Bork -- Figuring the origins of the modern at the fin de siècle : the trope of the pathetic male / Anna C. Chave -- Re-imagining meaning in the contemporary museum : from things that go beep in the case to the artist ex machina / Christopher R. Marshall -- (Con)Testing resources / Maureen Connor.

ISBN: 9780415372350 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415372356 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006037163

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA708130 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013655610 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art--Historiography.
Art and society.

LC Class. No.: N7480 / .M35 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 701/.18