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.