W McAllister Johnson

Art History

Its Use and Abuse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An extraordinary provocative critical analysis of the art history profession as both consumer and producer of information. An essay of the best sort, in which every opinion, however idiosyncratic, is informed with intelligence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 373
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780802068415
• ISBN-10: 0802068413
• Artikelnr.: 21105792

Autorenporträt

W. McAllister Johnson is a professor emeritus in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Versified Prints: A Literary and Cultural Phenomenon.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
ART HISTORY IN TRANSLATION
1. 1 RESEARCH
2. Research and Factors Conditioning Research
3. Research: From Great Expectations to Bleak House
4. The Research Process: Hard Times and Great Expectations
5. Readers, Reading, and Institutional Relations
6. Archives and Their Denizens
7. Treasures and Trash: Art and Its Literature through the Ages
8. The Usual Books of Reference
9. Dictionaries and Lexica
o Some 'Determining' Studies
o Collected Essays and Commemorative Volumes
10. Transcribed Lectures
11. Periodicals and Series
12. 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY
13. On Bibliography
14. Bibliographies
o Form and Function in Historical Writing
o Periodical Catalogues
o Some Indexes to Specific Periodicals
o A Selection among Institutional Catalogues
o Some Indispensable Titles
o Some Notable Approaches to Subject
o The Corpus: A Representative Selection
o Auction and Exhibition Catalogues
o Theoretical and Practical Literature on Exhibitions
o Canadiana
15. 3 WRITING
o On Quality in Writing
o The Writing of Art History
o Choosing and Developing a Topic
o Taking Note
o Assumptions
o On Imitation and Emulation in Art History
o The Mechanization of Art History
o Scaling Up and Scaling Down
o Scholarly Generosity
o When Writing for Periodical Publication
o Reviewers and Reviewing
o Diminished Powers, or a Sense of Proportion
o Night Thoughts
16. 4 UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC LIFE
17. Seminars and Pro-Seminars
18. Theses and Dissertations
19. Academic Alienation
20. Public Lectures
21. The Student's Emergency Kit for Notation
22. 'Abbreviated Reference' in Archaeology and Art History
23. Reference and Notation
o Describing the Work of Art
o Full Bibliographical Reference
o Architectural Reference
o Illuminated Manuscripts
o Prints and Drawings
o Photographic Sources and Reproductions
o The Bibliography and Its Intellectual Uses
24. 5 CATALOGUING THEORY
o On Cataloguing and Some Unrelated Matters
o Half-a-Dozen Heresies Mainly Regarding Collections,
Exhibitions, and Catalogues
o Describing a Work of Art
o The Catalogue Raisonne
25. 6 CATALOGUING PRACTICE
26. Catalogues: The Search for Form
27. Temporary (Loan) Exhibitions
28. Permanent-Collection Catalogues
o Some Informational and Notational Problems
o Visitors, Guides, and Installation Shots
29. Models
NOTES
INDEX