Partisan canons

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Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.

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Full title :Partisan canons / edited by Anna Brzyski.

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Case studies that counter the idea of a transcendent art canon by demonstrating that the content of any and every canon is historically and culturally specific.

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Publication Date:2007.

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Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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Description:1 online resource (370 pages) : : illustrations, map

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ISBN:1283035545, 9781283035545, 9780822390374, 082239037X, 0822340852, 9780822340850, 9786613035547, 6613035548
DOI:10.1515/9780822390374
oclc:ocn608504526
LC Classification:N72.5
Dewey Decimal:701/.18

Introduction: canons and art history / Anna Brzyski -- Measuring canons: reflections on innovation and the nineteenth-century canon of European art / Robert Jensen -- Canon and globalization in art history / James Elkins -- Mere exposure, reproduction, and the impressionist canon / James Cutting -- Imitation and authority: the creation of the academic canon in French art, 1648-1870 / Paul Duro -- Chinese art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War politics / Jane c. Ju -- Masculine reason or feminine spirit: gender battles in the Werkbund's canonization of national style / Despina Stratigakos -- Coubet, the decorative, and the canon: rewriting and rereading Meier-Graefe's Modern art / Jenny Anger -- The multiple masculinities of canonical modernism: James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in the 1930s / Marcia Brennan -- "Gardner" variety formalism: Helen Gardner and Art through the ages / Barbara Jaffee -- The Rembrandt Research Project: issues and controversies raised by a canonical overview / Linda Stone-Ferrier -- Making art in the age of art history, or how to become a canonical artist / Anna Brzyski -- Kinkade and the canon: art history's (ir)relevance / Monica Kjellm…