Number 15 December 2016
General papers
Diane Boze (Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma), ‘Creating history by re-creating the Minoan Snake Goddess’ 15/DB1
William Casement (Independent, Naples, Florida), ‘Were the ancient Romans art forgers?’ 15/WC1
Bente Kiilerich (University of Bergen), ‘Towards a “Polychrome History” of Greek and Roman Sculpture’ 15/BK1
Gregory P. A. Levin (University of California, Berkeley), ‘Critical Zen art history’ 15/GL1
Branko Mitrović (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway), ‘A Panofskyian meditation on free will and the forces of history: is humanist historiography still credible?’ 15/BM2
Ludwig Qvarnström (Lund University), ‘The Jewish modernist: Isaac Grünewald in Bertel Hintze’s art history’ 15/LQ1
Baroque for a wide public
Editorial
Michaela Marek and Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), ‘Baroque for a wide public: Popular media and their constructions of the epoch on both sides of the Iron Curtain’ 15/MPG1
Papers
Dubravka Botica (University of Zagreb), ‘Baroque in Croatia. Presentation of Baroque culture in Croatia in the socialist period’ 15/DBo1
Verity Clarkson (University of Brighton), ‘“The works themselves refute geographical separatism”: Exhibiting the Baroque in Cold War Britain’ 15/VC1
Meinrad v. Engelberg (Technische Universität Darmstadt), ‘Baroque in the Federal Republic of Germany: The variety of narratives as reflected in exhibition projects’ 15/MvE1
Noemi de Haro García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), ‘Banal art history. Baroque, modernization and official cinematography in Franco’s Spain’ 15/NdHG1
Ivan Gerát (Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and University of Trnava), ‘The role of saintly personalities in popular discourses from around 1970 on Baroque artistic cultures’ 15/IG1
Emilia Kłoda and Adam Szeląg (University of Wroclaw), ‘Ribald Man with a cranky look. The Sarmatian portrait as the pop-cultural symbol of the Baroque in Poland’ 15/KS1
Krista Kodres (Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University), ‘Scientific Baroque – for everyone. Constructing and conveying an art epoch during the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union and in Soviet Estonia’ 15/KK1
Carol Herselle Krinsky (Emerita NYU), ‘Reception of the Baroque in US university textbooks in art history’ 15/CHK1
Michaela Marek (Humboldt University, Berlin), ‘International exhibitions as an instrument of domestic cultural policy: how Baroque art came to be honoured in socialist Czechoslovakia’ 15/MM1
Andreas Nierhaus (Vienna Museum), ‘Exhibitions on the Baroque as media of the construction of Austrian identities in the 20th century’ 15/AN1
Lenka Řezníková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague), ‘Beyond ideology: Representations of the Baroque in socialist Czechoslovakia as seen through the media’ 15/LR1
A Tribute to Donald Preziosi
Introduction
Philip Armstrong (Ohio State University) and Jae Emerling (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), ‘Introduction: “The Preface of What You Shall Have Been”’ 15/AE1
Philip Armstrong (Ohio State University), Jae Emerling (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Claire Farago (University of Colorado Boulder), ‘Interview with Donald Preziosi’ 15/AEF1
Essay
Hayden White (Emeritus, University of California), ‘Modernism and the sense of history’ 15/HW1
Tributes
Daniel Bridgman (Smith College, Northampton, MA), ‘An art history of machines?’ 15/DBr1
Cynthia Colburn (Pepperdine University, Malibu, California), ‘Whose global art (history)?: Ancient art as global art’ 15/CC1
Jae Emerling (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “To betray art history” 15/JE1
Claire Farago (University of Colorado Boulder), ‘Stories fort/da my significant other’ 15/CF1
Louise Hitchcock (University of Melbourne), ‘What does a transition mean?’ 15/LH1
Paul Ivey (University of Arizona), ‘In gratitude’ 15/PI1
Preminda Jacob (University of Maryland Baltimore County ), ‘Spectres in storage: The colonial legacy of art museums’ 15/PJ1
Amelia Jones (University of Southern California), ‘“I write four times…”: A tribute to the work and teaching of Donald Preziosi’ 15/AJ1
Henrik Reeh (University of Copenhagen), ‘Encountering empty architecture: Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin’ 15/HR1
Anne Sejten (Roskilde University), ‘Art fighting its way back to aesthetics: Revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain’ 15/AS1
Dan Smith (University of Arts London), ‘Deferring and materiality: Incomplete reflections on Donald Preziosi’ 15/DS1
Ian Verstegen (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Is art history still a coy science?’ 15/IV1
Appendix:
Donald Preziosi (Emeritus University of California, Los Angeles), Bibliography 15/DP1
Reviews
Gail L. Geiger (Emerita University of Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Approaches and challenges to a global art history’: Circulations in the Global History of Art, edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Studies in Art Historiography, Surrey, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. $109.95, ISBN 978-1-4724-5456-0 hdbk, ISBN 978-1-4724-5737-0 ebk-PDF, ISBN 978-1-4724-5738-7 ebk-ePUB Geiger 15/GG1
Ladislav Kesner (Masaryk University Brno and National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany), ‘Exorcising the demons of collectivism in art history’: Branko Mitrović, Rage and Denials. Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890-1947, University Park, Pennsylvania University Press 2015, 242pp., ISBN 978-0-271-06678-3, $89.95 15/LK1
Marco M. Mascolo (Independent, Italy), ‘From “bad” to “good”: Baroque architecture through a century of art historiography and politics’: Evonne Levy, Baroque and the Political Language of Formalism (1845-1945): Burckhardt, Wölfflin, Gurlitt, Brinckmann, Sedlmayr, 400 pp., 42 ills, Basel: Schwabe, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7965-3396-9, € 68 15/MM1
Branko Mitrović (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway), ‘A refutation of (post-) narrativism, or: why postmodernists love Austro-Hungary’: Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, Postnarrativist philosophy of historiography, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 252 pp., AIAA 2015 edition (1 July 2015), ISBN-10: 113740986X, ISBN-13: 978-1137409867, £60.00 15/BM1
Andrei Pop (University of Chicago), ‘Bagley among the Germans’: Robert Bagley, Gombrich among the Egyptians and Other Essays in the History of Art, Seattle: Marquand Books, 2016, 208 pages, ISBN-10: 0692397140, ISBN-13: 978-0692397145, 150 ills, $60.00 15/AP1
Matthew Rampley (University of Birmingham), ‘A workshop of the mind’: Aby Warburg, Fragmente zur Ausdruckskunde, edited by Ulrich Pfisterer and Christian Hönes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Volume 4 of Aby Warburg: Gesammelte Schriften. 372 pages, ISBN-10: 3110374781, ISBN-13: 978-3110374780, £58.93 15/MR1
Matthew Rampley (University of Birmingham), ‘Fish, volcanoes and the art of brains’: John Onians, European Art: A Neuroarthistory. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. 320 pages. ISBN-10: 0300212798. ISBN-13: 978-0300212792. £40.50 15/MR3
Translation
Matilde Mateo (Syracuse University), ‘In Search of the origin of the Gothic: Thomas Pitt´s travel in Spain in 1760’: ‘En busca del origen del gótico: el viaje de Thomas Pitt por España en 1760’, Goya. Revista de Arte, published by the Fundación Lázaro Galdeano, No 292, 2003, 9-22. It is reproduced here in an English translation by kind permission of the Fundación Lázaro Galdeano and Goya. Revista de Arte. 15/MMa1
Document
Ingrid Ciulisová (Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences), ‘Dvořák’s Pupil Johannes Wilde (1891–1970)’ originally published in umění LX (2012), 101-8 15/IC1
Conference report
Matthew Rampley (University of Birmingham), Julius von Schlosser: aesthetics, art history and the book’, Report on the 150th Anniversary Conference on Julius von Schlosser, 6th and 7th October 2016: Julius von Schlosser (1866–1938), Internationale Tagung zum 150. Geburtstag, gemeinsam veranstaltet vom Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien und dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien 15/MR2
Blog
Richard Woodfield (University of Birmingham), Review of: Uwe Fleckner and Peter Mack, The Afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: Volume 12 (Vortrage Aus Dem Warburg-Haus), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2015, 250 pp., 52 ill. b/w, £29.99, ISBN-10: 3110438305, ISBN-13: 978-3110438307. Published in the Journal of Art Historiography’s blog, 11 June 2016 15/RW1.
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