Partisan Canons
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Partisan Canons

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Partisan Canons

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Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon's production and maintenance. The contributors explore how, where, why, and by whom canons are formed; how they function under particular circumstances; how they are maintained; and why they may undergo change.

Focusing on various moments from the seventeenth century to the present, the contributors cover a broad geographic terrain, encompassing the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Taiwan, and South Africa. Among the essays are examinations of the working and reworking of a canon by an influential nineteenth-century French critic, the limitations placed on what was acceptable as canonical in American textbooks produced during the Cold War, the failed attempt to define a canon of Rembrandt's works, and the difficulties of constructing an artistic canon in parts of the globe marked by colonialism and the imposition of Eurocentric ideas of artistic value. The essays highlight the diverse factors that affect the production of art canons: market forces, aesthetic and political positions, nationalism and ingrained ideas concerning the cultural superiority of particular groups, perceptions of gender and race, artists' efforts to negotiate their status within particular professional environments, and the dynamics of art history as an academic discipline and discourse. This volume is a call to historicize canons, acknowledging both their partisanship and its implications for the writing of art history.

Contributors. Jenny Anger, Marcia Brennan, Anna Brzyski, James Cutting, Paul Duro, James Elkins, Barbara Jaffee, Robert Jensen, Jane C. Ju, Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Julie L. McGee, Terry Smith, Linda Stone-Ferrier, Despina Stratigakos

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: Canons and Art History
  3. 1. Measuring Canons: Reflections on Innovation and the Nineteenth-century Canon of European Art
  4. 2. Canon and Globalization in Art History
  5. 3. Mere Exposure, Reproduction, and the Impressionist Canon
  6. 4. Imitation and Authority: The Creationof the Academic Canon in French Art,1648ā€“1870
  7. 5. Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum, and Cold War Politics
  8. 6. Masculine Reason or Feminine Spirit:Gender Battles in the Werkbundā€™s Canonization of National Style
  9. 7. Courbet, the Decorative, and the Canon:Rewriting and Rereading Meier-Graefeā€™s
  10. 9. ā€œGardnerā€ Variety Formalism:Helen Gardner and Art through the Ages
  11. 10. The Rembrandt Research Project:Issues and Controversies Raised by a Canonical Oeuvre
  12. 11. Making Art in the Age of Art History, or How to Become a Canonical Artist
  13. 12. Kinkade and the Canon: Art Historyā€™s(Ir)Relevance
  14. 13. Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons:Interpellations beyond the Colonial in South African Art
  15. 14. Coda: Canons and Contemporaneity
  16. Bibliography
  17. About the Contributors
  18. Index