two art histories
Subtitle: the museum and the university
By: edited by Charles W. Haxthausen.
Contributors: Haxthausen, Charles Werner.
Series: Clark studies in the visual arts
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Art -- Historiography -- Congresses; Art criticism -- Congresses; Art historians -- Attitudes -- Congresses; Art museum curators -- Attitudes -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "The Two Art Histories : the Museum and the University," held Apr. 9-10, 1999, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Michael Conforti -- Introduction / -- Charles W. Haxthausen -- Part One: The two art histories: perspectives; title: Whose art history? Curators, academics, and the museum visitor in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s -- Stephen Deuchar; title: Magnanimity and paranoia in the big bad art world -- Ivan Gaskell; title: Between academic and exhibition practice : the case of renaissance studies -- Andreas Beyer; title: Constructing histories of Latin American art -- Dawn Ades; title: Art history and its audience : a matter of gaps and bridges -- Sybille Ebert-Schifferer; title: www.display : complicating the formats of art history -- Barbara Maria Stafford -- Part Two: The exhibition as discursive medium; title: Eloquent walls and argumentative spaces : displaying late works of Degas -- Richard Kendall; title: Telling stories museum style -- Mark Rosenthal; title: Repetition and novelty : exhibitions tell tales -- Patricia Mainardi; title: German art - national expression or world language? Two visual essays -- Eckart Gillen; title: Case for active viewing -- William H. Truettner -- Part Three: Impressionism: the blockbuster and revisionist scholarship; title: Murder, autopsy, or dissection? Art history divides artists into parts: the cases of Edgar Degas and Claude Monet -- Richard R. Brettell; title: History of absence belatedly addressed: Impressionism with and without Mary Cassatt -- Griselda Pollock; title: Blockbuster, art history, and the public: the case of Origins of Impressionism -- Gary Tinterow; title: Possibilities for a revisionist blockbuster : Landscapes/impressions of France -- John House; title: Tormented friendship: French Impressionism in Germany-- Michael F. Zimmermann-- Afterword /-- Richard Brilliant