The art historian : national traditions and institutional practices / edited by Michael F. Zimmermann

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Notes: Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "The art historian: national traditions and institutional practices" held May 3-4, 2002 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Contents: Vestiges, monuments, and ruins: the East faces West / Alain Schnapp -- Pre-histories of art in nineteenth-century France: around Paul Delaroche's Hémicycle des beaux-arts / Stephen Bann -- Battling over Vasari: a tale of three countries / Carlo Ginzburg -- "Pineapple and mayonnaise; why not?: European art historians meet the new world / Karen Michels -- Moving apart: practicing art history in the old and new worlds / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Her majesty's masters / Mieke Bal -- Reading Dutch art: science and fiction in Vermeer / H. Perry Chapman -- History and image: has the "epistemological transformation" taken place? / Georges Didi-Huberman -- A neglected tradition?: art history as Bildwissenschaft / Horst Bredekamp -- The history of art and archaeology in England now / Eric Fernie -- Art history as anthropology: French and German traditions / Michael F. Zimmermann -- Languages of art history / Charles W. Haxthausen -- Babel and Pentecost: looking back on the conference from half a year's distance / Willibald Sauerländer

Author: Clark Conference (2002 : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute); Zimmermann, Michael F; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute