A Companion to American Art E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1495

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history.

• Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and other specialists
• Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debate between scholars on important contemporary issues in American art history
• Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of art to public culture
• Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and current state of the field of American art history and suggests future directions of scholarship

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Writing American Art History

Geographies: Rethinking Americanness

Subjectivities

Art and Public Culture

Conclusion (An Opening)

Part I: Writing American Art History

Dialogue

1 A Conversation Missed

Areas of Difference

Case Study: Jackson Pollock

Concluding Observations

References

2 Response

Mass/Popular Culture

Formalism

Material Culture

Pragmatism

References

3 A Time and a Place

Race-ing Black Artists

Seeing White

The Ends of Race?

Imagining a Post-Racial Art History

And So, Where and When?

References

Dialogue

4 On the Social History of American Art

Introduction

The Marxist Social History of Art

Marxist and “Marxian” Social Histories of American Art

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

5 Response

Acknowledgments

References

6 The Maker’s Share

Close Analysis

The How-To Book

Reconstruction

The Maker’s Share

Materiality

The Social

Theorizing Process

Conclusion

References

Dialogue

7 The Problem with Close Looking

References

8 Response

“Deduction” as Intense Engagement

Affective Encounters and Differentiations, or the Politics of Engaging Surfaces

Racialized Ontologies of the Visual

Messy Histories, Viscerally Felt

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

9 Looking for Thomas Eakins

References

Dialogue

10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture

References

11 Response

References

Part II: Geographies: Rethinking Americanness

12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History

Why Co-Teach?

The Entangled Classroom

Looking Ahead

References

13 An American Architecture?

Americanness?

American?

Can We Still Write About an American Architecture?

References

14 The Pacific World and American Art History

References

15 “Home” and “Homeless” in Art between the Wars

References

16 Pueblo Painting in 1932

Awa Tsireh’s Transcultural Line

“An Art That Is Really American”

Nationalism Undone in Venice

Pueblo Mentors and Friends

Reproductions and Multiples

Acknowledgments

References

17 US American Art in the Americas

Settler Modernism in Latin America

American Sources of Modern Art

Conclusion

References

18 Geography Lessons

References

19 Only in America

References

20 Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and the Study of American Art

“the great car of English”

In Other Words (Translations)