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Reflection on the history and practice of art history has long been a major topic
of research and scholarship, and this volume builds on this tradition by offering a
critical survey of many of the major development in the contemporary discipline,
such as the impact of digital technologies, the rise of visual studies or new initiatives
in conservation theory and practice. Alongside these methodological issues this
book addresses the mostly neglected question of the impact of national contexts on
the development of the discipline. Taking a wide range of case studies, this book
examines the impact of the specific national political, institutional and ideological
demands on the practice of art history. The result is an account that both draws out
common features and also highlights the differences and the plurality of practices
that together constitute art history as a discipline.

rampley et al (eds)

Matthew Rampley is Professsor in the History of Art of the University of

Birmingham. He has published widely on aesthetics and the historiography of art,
with a particular focus on Nietzsche, Warburg, Riegl and the Vienna School of Art
History, and is associate editor of the Journal of Art Historiography.

Art History and Visual Studies in Europe

Hubert Locher is Professor of the History and Theory of the Image, and Director
of the German Art Historical Documentation Centre of the Philipps University,
Marburg. Alongside work on the Renaissance, specifically, Alberti, Raphael and
Ghirlandaio, he has also written and edited numerous books on museum and
exhibitionary practice, art theory and the historiography of art.
Andrea Pinotti is Professor of Philosophy at the Universit degli Studi, Milan. He
has written widely on German nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetics and
its place within the historiography of art, including books on Riegl, Warburg and
Walter Benjamin.
Charlotte Schoell-Glass is Professor of Art History at the University of Hamburg.
A member of the editorial board of Word & Image, her research interests focus on
the relation between image and text, and she has also published on Aby Warburg,
including a critical edition of the Diary of the Warburg Library in Hamburg and
a study of Warburg and anti-Semitism.
K itty Zijlmans is Director of the Leiden University
Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Her main areas of
research and publication have been contemporary art,
the theory and methodologies of art history and world
art studies as a new disciplinary paradigm.

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Thierry Lenain is Professor of Art Theory at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles.

Published works include studies of forgery, monkey painting and the image in
Deleuze, Foucault and Lyotard.

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Art History and

Visual Studies in Europe
Transnational Discourses
and National Frameworks

Edited by

Matthew Rampley, Thierry Lenain,

Hubert Locher, Andrea Pinotti,
Charlotte Schoell-Glass & Kitty Zijlmans
Subseries Editor: ROBERT ZWIJNENBeRG

This book was supported by funds made available by the European Science Foundation (ESF),
which was established in 1974 to provide a common platform for its Member Organisations to
advance European research collaboration and explore new directions for research.
This publication was supported by grants from the Aby Warburg-Stiftung and the Hamburgische
Wissenschaftlich Stiftung, both in Hamburg.
Cover illustration: Elliott Erwitt. Personal. 1996. Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos.

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in Europe
Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks

Edited by

Matthew Rampley
Thierry Lenain
Hubert Locher
Andrea Pinotti
Charlotte Schoell-Glass
Kitty Zijlmans

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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ........................................................................................
Preface and Acknowledgements ................................................................
Thierry Lenain, Hubert Locher, Andrea Pinotti, Charlotte
Schoell-Glass, Matthew Rampley and Kitty Zijlmans

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Introduction .....................................................................................................
Matthew Rampley

PART ONE

METHODS, DEBATES AND PARADIGMS

Art History, Aesthetics and Art Criticism ...............................................
Antonio Somaini

17

The Idea of the Canon and Canon Formation in Art History ..........
Hubert Locher

29

European Heritage: Unity in Diversity? ...................................................

Brian Graham

41

Contemporary Art and the Concept of Art History: Influence,

Dependency and Challenge ....................................................................
Peter J. Schneemann

59

Formalism and the History of Style ..........................................................

Andrea Pinotti

75

Visual Culture and Visual Studies..............................................................

Jan Baetens

91

Theories of the Image in France: Between Art History and

Visual Anthropology .................................................................................
Ralph Dekoninck

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Bildwissenschaft: Theories of the Image in German-Language

Scholarship...................................................................................................
Matthew Rampley
Computerization, Digitization and the Internet ...................................
Antonella Sbrilli

119

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Technical Art History: The Synergy of Art, Conservation and

Science ..........................................................................................................
Erma Hermens

151

Dimensions of Dialogue: Art History and the Discourse of

Economics ....................................................................................................
Victor Ginsburgh and Franois Mairesse

167

Sociologies of Art: With and against Art History ..................................

Nathalie Heinich

185

Museums and Museologies ..........................................................................

Dominique Poulot

197

Art History in a Global Frame: World Art Studies ...............................

Wilfried van Damme and Kitty Zijlmans

217

The Construction of National Art Histories and the

New Europe ...............................................................................................
Matthew Rampley

231

PART TWO

THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE DISCIPLINE

Cultures of Interruptions. Art History in the Baltic States: Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania .................................................................................
Krista Kodres, Giedr Micknait and Stella Pele
In Search of a Synthesis: Art History in Belgium ..................................
Raphal Pirenne

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Art History in Bulgaria: Institutional Frameworks, Research

Directions and Individual Scholars ......................................................
Elka Bakalova

287

Art History in the Czech and Slovak Republics: Institutional

Frameworks, Topics and Loyalties .......................................................
Milena Bartlov

305

Art History in France: A Conflict of Traditions .....................................

Ralph Dekoninck and Jol Roucloux
Art History in German-Speaking Countries: Austria, Germany
and Switzerland ..........................................................................................
Charlotte Schoell-Glass
Art History and Visual Studies in Great Britain and Ireland ............
Griselda Pollock

315

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Born of a Peripheral Modernism: Art History in Greece and

Cyprus............................................................................................................
Areti Adamopoulou

379

Art History in Italy: Connoisseurship, Academic Scholarship

and the Protection of Cultural Heritage .............................................
Laura Iamurri

393

Art History in the Netherlands: The Past and Present of the

Discipline......................................................................................................
Marga van Mechelen and Kitty Zijlmans

407

Art History in the Nordic Countries .........................................................

Dan Karlholm, Hans Dam Christensen and Matthew Rampley

421

A Marginalised Tradition? Polish Art History........................................

Wojciech Baus

439

In Search of National Traditions: Art History in Romania ................

Corina Teac

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Art History in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia ..............

Nenad Makuljevi

461

Art History in Spain: A Generational History ........................................

Gonzalo M. Borrs Gualis

473

Art History and the Founding of the Modern Turkish State ............
Burcu Dogramaci

485

Bibliography .....................................................................................................
Dennis Janzen

493

Index ...................................................................................................................

543

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