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American art history is a remarkably young, but rapidly growing, discipline. Membership in the Association of Historians of American Art, founded in 1979, now totals nearly 600. As a result of this growth, geographical and cultural borders no longer contain the field. American art history has become ""internationalized,"" represented by scholars and exhibitions around the globe. While this international transmission and exchange of ideas will certainly prove to be valuable, it has been left largely unexamined. Internationalizing the History of American Art begins a critical examination of this exchange, showing how it has become part of the maturation of American art history. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars considers the shaping and dissemination of the history of American art domestically and internationally, past and present, theoretically and practically, from a variety of intellectual positions and experiences. To do so, they draw on a literature that, collectively, constitutes a bibliography for the future of the field. Three sections-""American Art and Art History,"" ""Display and Exposition,"" and ""Post-1945 Investments""-provide the structure in which the contributors examine the existing narrative framework for the history of American art. This examination indicates a direction for the field and a future historiography that is shaped by international dialogue.

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Author:   Barbara Groseclose (The Ohio State University) ,  Jochen Wierich (Curator of Art, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780271030883

ISBN 10:   0271030887
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich I. American Art and Art History 1. Newness, Flatness, and Other Myths: Looking for National Identity in European (and a Few British) Histories of American Art Rebecca Zurier 2. Mutual Seduction: German Art History and American Art Jochen Wierich 3. American Art Pre-1940 and the Problem of Art History's Object Andrew Hemingway 4. Beyond the Borders: Nineteenth-Century British and American Art in Comparative Perspective David Peters Corbett II. Display and Exposition 5. The Absolute Past: Your Version or Ours? Canadian Constructions of Pre-1945 American Art History Marylin McKay 6. An Artistic Tradition in the Making: Looking at American Art in French Nineteenth-Century Criticism Veerle Thielemans 7. Ceci n'est pas un musée: Distance and Resistance in Franco-American Cultural Displays Derrick R. Cartwright 8. Transatlantic Complexities: A Traveling Exhibition About Traveling Artists Sophie Levy III. Post-1945 Investments 9. Ménage à trois: Paris, New York, São Paolo, and the Love of Modern Art Serge Guilbaut 10. The “Triumph” of American Art? Pop Art in the Postwar World Christin J. Mamiya Notes Contributors Index

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Barbara Groseclose is Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of the History of Art at Ohio State University. She was a Distinguished Chair of American Studies in Utrecht (1994) and in Florence (2001) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2006). Her major publications are Nineteenth-Century American Art (2000) and British Sculpture and the Company Raj (1995). Jochen Wierich is Curator of Art at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. He has published articles in such periodicals as Winterthur Portfolio, American Art, American Studies International, and Film and History. He is a contributing author to a number of exhibition catalogues, including New World: Creating an American Art (2007) and The Eight and American Modernisms (2009).

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