Search Results - "Journal of art historiography"

Rosalind Krauss. The streak of defiance by Modes, Julia

“…He's sitting there just as I remember him, next to the neat little marble-topped table, with its prim lamp in gilt bronze mounted by a simple white shade, and…”
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Iconotropy: everything or nothing? by A. A. Donohue

“…The relationship between art and religion has long been a major focus of art-historical research. The collection of essays edited by Jorge Tomás García and…”
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The artist as historian-politician: Romantic historicism, art, and architecture in the performance of cultural nationalism in Pérez Villaamil and Escosura’s España artística y monumental (1842-50) by Matilde Mateo

“…This article analyses the sophisticated performance of cultural nationalism in the first instalment of España artística y monumental. It examines how the…”
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The ‘purification of the personality of Sanmicheli by David Hemsoll

“…The respected art historian Antonio Morassi, as a student under Max Dvořák in Vienna in 1912–16, wrote a thesis on the Renaissance architect Michele Sanmicheli…”
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Reframing the history of proletarian art: Sino-Japanese relations in modern woodcut print culture by Anna Grasskamp

“…The emergence of modern Chinese woodcut aesthetics, motifs and techniques during the early twentieth century has long been understood in relation to cultural…”
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What does “knowing” mean? Otto Pächt hears Moritz Schlick by Barbara Czwik

“…This article outlines an approach to a manuscript by the art historian Otto Pächt, which engages with the theories of the physicist and philosopher Moritz…”
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Anna Spitzmüller (1903–2001), the first female custodian at the Albertina Museum in Vienna by Drahoss, Ursula

“…Anna Spitzmüller is considered the first woman to hold the position of curator in an Austrian museum. Women's studies took notice of the art historian only…”
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The reception of Max Dvořák's thought in Italy: resistances and unlucky attempts between the 1920s and the 1940s by Bottura, Francesca

“…When Max Dvorák died in 1921 not many works of him were published; two of his students, Johannes Wilde and Karl M. Swoboda, organized and published some of his…”
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Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan by Chen, Xiangming

“…First published in 1806, the book stands out as one of the few comprehensive, richly illustrated accounts detailing a territory not visitable by its Edo…”
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Helena Blum (1904-1984) - a Polish art historian in the gender gap by Smolinska, Marta

“…This text has two aims: the first is to present a profile of the Polish art historian Helena Blum; the second is to briefly reflect on methodology and to ask…”
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Authority and Authenticity in Art Writing by Hans Christian Hönes

“…The review discusses the edited volume Pro Domo. Kunstgeschichte in eigener Sache. The volume aims to analyse systematically an understudied sub-genre of art…”
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Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road by A.E. Redgate

“…This beautifully and effectively illustrated book explains the various contacts, and their contexts, between Armenians and persons from western Europe,…”
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Baroquemania: a counter-rationalist history of Italian art by Francesca Billiani

“…This review discussed the emergence of the Baroque in Italian visual arts as analysed in the book Baroquemania by Laura Moure Cecchini. In this book, the…”
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Another way of telling the story by Niamh NicGhabhann

“…This review considers Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader, edited by Fintan Cullen and Róisín Kennedy, as a key contribution to the historiography of Irish art…”
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Beyond Dvořákʼs 'The Last Renaissance': on the beginnings of Slovenian scientific art history inspired by modern art by Krmelj, Vesna

“…The development of the art-historical profession after 1914-18 war in the newly established successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was strongly…”
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Jewish students in Strzygowski's Vienna Institute and the study of Jewish art: a forgotten chapter in the history of the Vienna School by Young, Michael

“…After enduring a prolonged damnatio memoriae, the Viennese art historian Josef Strzygowski (1862-1941) has been twice-born in recent years as a harbinger of…”
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Johanna Hofmann-Stirnemann. The first female museum director in Germany by Köpnick, Gloria, Stamm, Rainer

“…Art history knows many muses, fewer female artists, some female patrons or gallery owners, but there are only a few prominent female art historians in Germany…”
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The Vienna School of Art History from the 1960s to the mid-1970s: the renewal of art history and the influence of art schools by Rérat, Melissa

“…This article gives a brief overview of a large research project dedicated to the role of art schools in the renewal of the discipline of art history, that I…”
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Edith Hoffmann (1888-1945): the first successful female art historian in Hungary by Kopócsy, Anna

“…Edith Hoffmann's name is not unknown to those involved in Hungarian museology or to researchers of medieval and Renaissance miniature painting and panel…”
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An historiographic contextualization of Leo Steinberg’s “Observations in the Cerasi Chapel by Kerr Houston

“…In recent decades, Leo Steinberg’s 1959 article ‘Observations in the Cerasi Chapel’ has been variously characterized as brilliant, extraordinarily insightful,…”
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