'The sixteen books include Nikolaus Pevsner’s gospel of Modernism, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, Alfred Barr’s now legendary monograph on Matisse, E.H. Gombrich’s Art and Illusion, Clement Greenberg’s Art and Culture, which had a seismic impact when it was published in 1961, and Rosalind Krauss’s The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, which introduced structuralist and poststructuralist thinking into art historical study.
'Initiated by and prepared under the auspices of The Burlington Magazine, each chapter — with writers including John Elderfield, Boris Groys, Susie Nash and Richard Verdi — analyzes a single major book, setting out its premises and argument and mapping the intellectual development of its author, discussing its position within the field of art history, and looking at its significance in the context both of its initial reception and its legacy.
'An introduction by John-Paul Stonard explores how art history has been forged by these outstanding contributions, as well as by the dialogues and ruptures between them. Supplementary documentation summarises the achievements of each art historian and provides a detailed publication history of their texts, with suggestions for further reading.
'Enlivening debates and questioning the very status of art history itself, The Books that Shaped Art History is a concise and brilliant study of the discipline and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, bibliophiles and all those interested in visual culture and its histories.' (Back Cover)
With 54 illustrations. Includes bibliographical essays and author biographies.
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INTRODUCTION - John-Paul STONARD
CHAPTER 1 Emile Mâle: L'art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France: Etude sur l'iconographie du Moyen Age et sur ses sources d'inspiration, 1898 - Alexandra GAJEWSKI
CHAPTER 2 Bernard Berenson: The Drawings of the Florentine Painters Classified, Criticised and Studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art, with a Copious Catalogue Raisonné, 1903 - Carmen C. BAMBACH
CHAPTER 3 Heinrich Wölfflin: Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren Kunst, 1915 - David SUMMERS
CHAPTER 4 Roger Fry: Cézanne: A Study of His Development, 1927 - Richard VERDI OBE
CHAPTER 5 Nikolaus Pevsner: Pionners of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius, 1936 - Colin AMERY
CHAPTER 6 Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Matisse: His Art and His Public, 1951 - John ELDERFIELD
CHAPTER 7 Erwin Panofsky: Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 1953 - Susie NASH
CHAPTER 8 Kenneth Clark: The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, 1956 - John-Paul STONARD
CHAPTER 9 E. H. Gombrich: Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, 1960 - Christopher S. WOOD
CHAPTER 10 Clement Greenberg: Art and Culture: Critical Essays, 1961 - Boris GROYS
CHAPTER 11 Francis Haskell: Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, 1963 - Louise RICE
CHAPTER 12 Michael Baxandall: Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, 1972 - Paul HILLS
CHAPTER 13 T. J. Clark: Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, 1973 - Alastair WRIGHT
CHAPTER 14 Svetlana Alpers: The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, 1983 - Mariet WESTERMANN
CHAPTER 15 Rosalind Krauss: The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 1985 - Anna LOVATT
CHAPTER 16 Hans Belting: Bild und Kult: Eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst, 1990 - Jeffrey HAMBURGER
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss
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