Journal of Art Historiography

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/

Number 3 December 2010

Call for Papers on Giorgio Vasari’s Vite (1550 & 1568)

To celebrate the quincentenary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari the Editor invites re-evaluations of his work in the light of the enormous quantity of secondary literature that has emerged since the nineteenth-century. It would be an appropriate time to take stock of important questions and approaches.
Deadline: June 1st 2011. Contact: Richard.Woodfieldglasgow.ac.uk.

Articles

Reinventing the Old Masters

Christina Ferando, 'Maidservant as muse: The dramatic reinvention of Antonio Canova' 3-CFe/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183168_en.pdf>

Lindsey Schneider, ‘The Painter and the Scullery Boy: Pietro da Cortona in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature’ 3-LS/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183169_en.pdf>

The Vienna School

Diana Reynolds Cordileone, 'The advantages and disadvantages of Art History to Life: Alois Riegl and historicism' 3-DRC/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183170_en.pdf>

Adi Efal, 'Reality as the cause of Art: Riegl and neo-kantian realism' 3-AE/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183171_en.pdf>

Veronika Kopecky, ‘Letters to and from Ernst Gombrich regarding Art and Illusion, including some comments on his notion of “schema and correction”’ 3-VK/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183172_en.pdf>

Branko Mitrović, ‘A defence of light: Ernst Gombrich, the Innocent Eye and seeing in perspective’ 3-BM/2
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183173_en.pdf>

Cindy Persinger, ‘Reconsidering Meyer Schapiro and the New Vienna School’ 3-CP/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183174_en.pdf>

Kathryn Simpson, ‘Viennese art, ugliness, and the Vienna school of art history: the vicissitudes of theory and practice’ 3-KS/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183175_en.pdf>

The geographies of art history

Heather Barker and Charles Green, ‘The Provincialism Problem: Terry Smith and Centre-Periphery Art History’ 3-BG/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183176_en.pdf>

Krista Kodres, ‘Freedom from theory? An attempt to analyse Sten Karling’s views on (Estonian) art history’ 3-KK/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183177_en.pdf>

Contemporary issues

Ya'ara Gil Glazer,‘A new kind of history? The challenges of contemporary
histories of photography’ 3-YGG/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183179_en.pdf>

Raymond Spiteri,‘A Farewell to modernism? Re-reading T.J. Clark’ 3-RS/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183180_en.pdf>

Documents

Matthew Martin, ‘Relics of Another Age: Art History, the “Decorative Arts”
and the Museum’, ABV49: The Annual Journal of the National Gallery of
Victoria, 2010, 7-21 3-MM/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183181_en.pdf>

Reviews

Elizabeth Edwards: Wendy A. Grossman, Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist
Lens, Washington DC: International Arts and Artists, 2009 3-EE/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183210_en.pdf>

James F. D. Frakes: Ellen Swift, Style and function in Roman decoration:
Living with objects and interiors, Ashgate 2009 3-JDF/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183211_en.pdf>

Eric Garberson: Gilbert Heß, Elena Agazzi, Elisabeth Décultot, Graecomania.
Der europäische Philhellenismus. Klassizistisch-romantische Kunst(t)räume 1,
Walter De Gruyter 2009 3-EG/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183213_en.pdf>

Ricardo de Mambro Santos: Claire Farago (ed.), Re-Reading Leonardo. The
Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550-1900, Ashgate 2009 3-RdMS/2
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183214_en.pdf>

Jeanne-Marie Musto: Towards a Science of Art History: J. J. Tikkanen and Art
Historical Scholarship in Europe,The Acts of an International Conference,
Helsinki, December 7-8 2007, Helsinki: Society of Art History, 2009 3-JMM/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183215_en.pdf>

Responses

Claire Farago with further thoughts on the origins of the 1651 edition of
Leonardo’s Trattato 3-CFa/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183216_en.pdf>

Bibliographies

Johanna Vakkari, ‘J. J. Tikkanen’s Publications’ 3-JVa/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183217_en.pdf>

Books received

Mark Bradley, Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Hardcover: 282 pages; ISBN-10: 0521110424; ISBN-13:
978-0521110426. [Including contents, introduction and indices.] 3-MB/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183218_en.pdf>

Carl F. Barnes Jnr., The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt: a new critical
edition and color facsimile, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Hardcover: 424 pages;
ISBN-10: 0754651029; ISBN-13: 978-0754651024. [Including contents, foreword
and indices.] 3-CFB/1 <http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183219_en.pdf>

Nasser Rabbat (ed.), The Courtyard House, Farnham: Ashgate 2010. Hard cover:
290 pages; ISBN-10: 075463843X; ISBN-13: 978-0754638438. [Including
contents, chapter by Jateen Lad, 'A house divided: the harem courtyards of
the Topkapi palace' and indices reprinted by permission of the publishers.
Copyright © 2010 http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754638438] 3-NR/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183220_en.pdf>

Alois Riegl, The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome, edited and translated by
Andrew Hopkins and Arnold Witte, with essays by Alina Payne, Arnold Witte,
and Andrew Hopkins; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. Paperback,
292 pages, 47 b/w illustrations; ISBN 978-1-60606-041-4. [Including
contents, acknowledgments and a note on the translation.] 3-AR/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183221_en.pdf>

Paul van den Akker, Looking for Lines: Theories of the Essence of Art and
the Problem of Mannerism, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Paperback: 524 pages, 177 illustrations; ISBN 978 90 8964 178 6; e-ISBN 978
90 4851 144 0. [Including preface, contents and introduction.] 3-PvdA/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183821_en.pdf>

Ingrid R. Vermeulen, Picturing Art History: The Rise of the Illustrated
History of Art in the Eighteenth Century, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University
Press, 2010. Paperback: 352 pages, 139 illustrations; ISBN 978 90 8964 031
4; eISBN 978 90 4851 278 2. [Including contents and introduction.] 3-IRV/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183822_en.pdf>

Notices

Musées de papier. L'Antiquité en livres, 1600-1800, Louvre du 25 septembre
2010 au 3 janvier 2011 3-L/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183223_en.pdf>

Antiquity Rediscovered: Innovation and Resistance in the 18th Century,
Louvre from December 2, 2010 to February 14, 2011; Napoleon Hall 3-L/2
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183224_en.pdf>

The Geographies of Art History in the Baltic Region (selected conference
proceedings) Tallinn, Estonia 2009 3-E/1
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_183225_en.pdf>