Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art.
Table of ContentsContents
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
