art historian
Subtitle: national traditions and institutional practices
By: edited by Michael F. Zimmermann.
Contributors: Zimmermann, Michael F.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Series: Clark studies in the visual arts
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Art historians -- Attitudes -- Congresses; Art criticism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
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.

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