Partisan Canons

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Partisan Canons

Edited by: Anna Brzyski
With contributions by: Robert Jensen , James Elkins , James Cutting and Paul Duro

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390374

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About this book

Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.

Author / Editor information

Anna Brzyski is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Kentucky.

Reviews

“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

“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?

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

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Other: 38 illustrations, 8 tables

eBook

Published: October 8, 2007
ISBN: 9780822390374