Title & Author:

The Early years of art history in the United States : notes and essays on departments, teaching, and scholars / edited by Craig Hugh Smyth and Peter M. Lukehart.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, ©1993.

Description:

xxiii, 205 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I Glimpses of some early departments of the history of art in the United States : Introduction to Part I / Craig Hugh Smyth -- Princeton : the beginnings under Marquand / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin -- Appendix I : Venturi's letter to Marquand -- Appendix II : The study of the history of art in the colleges and universities of the United States (1912) / E. Baldwin Smith -- The Princeton Department in the time of Morey / Craig Hugh Smyth -- An undergraduate's experience of fine arts at Harvard University in the 1920s / Edward M.M. Warburg -- Harvard and the Fogg / Agnes Mongan -- The Harvard Fine Arts Department / John Coolidge -- Harvard postscript / Otto Wittmann -- The Department of Art at Vassar : 1865-1931 / Pamela Askew -- The study of art at Smith College / Phyllis Williams Lehmann -- Arts at Yale University / George Kubler -- The Department of Fine Arts for Graduate Students at New York University / Craig Hugh Smyth -- History of art at Columbia University / Julius S. Held -- pt. II Three decades of art history in the United States (1910-1940), five figures : Introduction to Part II / Henry A. Millon -- Bernard Berenson / Michael Rinehart -- Arthur Kingsley Porter : life, legend and legacy / Linda Seidel -- Concerning Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) / Craig Hugh Smyth -- American backgrounds : Fiske Kimball's study of architecture in the United States / Lauren Weiss Bricker -- Richard Offner and the ineffable : a problem of connoisseurship / Hayden B.J. Maginnis -- pt. III Institutionalizing art history : the early discipline in the United States : Introduction to Part III / Donald Preziosi -- The Department of Art, Wellesley College, and the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1875-1914 / Claire Richter Sherman -- The beginnings of art history at Harvard and the "Fogg method" / Sybil Gordon Kantor -- Formulating art history at Princeton and the "humanistic laboratory" / David Van Zanten -- Virtue and good manners : toward a history of art history instruction / Mary Ann Stankiewicz.
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Summary:

"Art history became established as an academic discipline in the United States between 1865 and 1895, when courses were introduced not only at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, but also at Vassar, Syracuse, Wellesley, Rockford Female Seminary, Radcliffe, and Bryn Mawr. The prominent early role of the women's colleges and smaller universities is just one of the areas investigated in this volume on the genesis and early development of art history in the United States. Other essays focus on single departments of art history, examining the early subjects and methods of American art history and the way in which its practitioners responded to and assimilated contemporary developments in other fields, particularly history, the sciences, and philosophy. A final section examines some of the great scholarly personalities that dominated the field in the early years of this century. The volume includes a complete reprint of E. Baldwin Smith's 1912 survey The Study of the History of Art in the Colleges and Universities of the United States (Princeton)."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691036454 (acid-free paper)
9780691036458 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Art Study and teaching (Higher) United States.
Art schools United States History.
Art Historiographie.
Art Étude et enseignement (Supérieur) États-Unis.
Écoles des Beaux-Arts États-Unis Histoire.
20.04 teaching, profession, organizations of the art sciences.
Art Study and teaching (Higher)
Art schools
Art
Kunstgeschichte
Kongress
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Kunsthistorici.
Opleidingen.
Écoles des beaux-arts États-Unis.
Art Étude et enseignement États-Unis.
United States
USA
Art schools History United States

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Smyth, Craig Hugh.
Lukehart, Peter M., 1955-
Princeton paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109607
Call No.: ID N385.E27; ID:94-B351
Status: Available