Main entry:

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, author. aut

Title & Author:

Toward a geography of art / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2004]

Description:

xiv, 490 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-460) and index.
HISTORIOGRAPHY -- The Historiography of the Geography of Art: From Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century -- From the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Century: The Formulation of a Geography of Art -- From Kunstgeographie to Visual Culture: Geographical Ideas about Art from the First World War to the Present -- EUROPE -- Identity in Artistic Geography? Some Considerations of Early Modern Europe -- The Problem of Artistic Metropolises: (East) Central Europe from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century -- Dimensions of Diffusion-Italian Sculptors and Sculpture Outside of Italy (Chiefly in Central Europe): Problems of Approach, Possibilities of Reception -- THE AMERICAS -- An Introduction to the Artistic Geography of the Americas: The Limits of Kubler's Legacy -- Circulation East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Jesuit Artists in the Americas -- Mastery or Mestizaje: Placing and Interpretation of S. Lorenzo, Potosi -- JAPAN: THE LIMITS OF DIFFUSIONISM -- Designed for Desecration: Fumi-e and European Art -- Epilogue: Toward a Geography of Art.

Summary:

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art history, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's book offers essays that focus on the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early modern period in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Toward a Geography of Art presents a historical overview of these complexities, debates contemporary concerns, and completes its exploration with a diverse collection of case studies. Employing the author's expertise in a variety of fields, the book delves into critical issues such as transculturation of indigenous traditions, mestizaje, the artistic metropolis, artistic diffusion, transfer, circulation, subversion, and center and periphery. What results is a foundational study that establishes the geography of art as a subject and forces us to reconsider assumptions about the place of art that underlie the longstanding narratives of art history.[publisher].

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ISBN:

0226133117 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780226133119 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0226133125 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226133126 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Art and geography.
Art, Comparative.
Art Historiographie.
Art et géographie.
Art comparé.
Geografische aspecten.
Kunstgeografie
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Kunstwissenschaft
Methode
Kunst
Geografie
Kunsttheorie.
Art.
Géographie.
Historiographie.
Geographie.
Kunstgeographie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234155
Call No.: N7480.K34 2004
Status: Available