
Internationalizing the History of American Art
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Edited by Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich
Internationalizing the History of American Art
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Edited by Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich
American art history is a remarkably young, but rapidly growing, discipline. Membership in the Association of Historians of American Art, founded in 1979, now totals nearly 600. As a result of this growth, geographical and cultural borders no longer contain the field. American art history has become “internationalized,” represented by scholars and exhibitions around the globe. While this international transmission and exchange of ideas will certainly prove to be valuable, it has been left largely unexamined. Internationalizing the History of American Art begins a critical examination of this exchange, showing how it has become part of the maturation of American art history.
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In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars considers the shaping and dissemination of the history of American art domestically and internationally, past and present, theoretically and practically, from a variety of intellectual positions and experiences. To do so, they draw on a literature that, collectively, constitutes a bibliography for the future of the field. Three sections—“American Art and Art History,” “Display and Exposition,” and “Post-1945 Investments”—provide the structure in which the contributors examine the existing narrative framework for the history of American art. This examination indicates a direction for the field and a future historiography that is shaped by international dialogue.
Barbara Groseclose is Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of the History of Art at Ohio State University. She was a Distinguished Chair of American Studies in Utrecht (1994) and in Florence (2001) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2006). Her major publications are Nineteenth-Century American Art (2000) and British Sculpture and the Company Raj (1995).
Jochen Wierich is Curator of Art at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. He has published articles in such periodicals as Winterthur Portfolio, American Art, American Studies International, and Film and History. He is a contributing author to a number of exhibition catalogues, including New World: Creating an American Art (2007) and The Eight and American Modernisms (2009).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich
I. American Art and Art History
1. Newness, Flatness, and Other Myths: Looking for National Identity in European (and a Few British) Histories of American Art
Rebecca Zurier
2. Mutual Seduction: German Art History and American Art
Jochen Wierich
3. American Art Pre-1940 and the Problem of Art History's Object
Andrew Hemingway
4. Beyond the Borders: Nineteenth-Century British and American Art in Comparative Perspective
David Peters Corbett
II. Display and Exposition
5. The Absolute Past: Your Version or Ours? Canadian Constructions of Pre-1945 American Art History
Marylin McKay
6. An Artistic Tradition in the Making: Looking at American Art in French Nineteenth-Century Criticism
Veerle Thielemans
7. Ceci n'est pas un musée: Distance and Resistance in Franco-American Cultural Displays
Derrick R. Cartwright
8. Transatlantic Complexities: A Traveling Exhibition About Traveling Artists
Sophie Levy
III. Post-1945 Investments
9. Ménage à trois: Paris, New York, São Paolo, and the Love of Modern Art
Serge Guilbaut
10. The “Triumph” of American Art? Pop Art in the Postwar World
Christin J. Mamiya
Notes
Contributors
Index
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