An extraordinary provocative critical analysis of the art history profession as both consumer and producer of information. An essay of the best sort, in which every opinion, however idiosyncratic, is informed with intelligence.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
ART HISTORY IN TRANSLATION
- 1 RESEARCH
- Research and Factors Conditioning Research
- Research: From Great Expectations to Bleak House
- The Research Process: Hard Times and Great Expectations
- Readers, Reading, and Institutional Relations
- Archives and Their Denizens
- Treasures and Trash: Art and Its Literature through the Ages
- The Usual Books of Reference
- Dictionaries and Lexica
- Some 'Determining' Studies
- Collected Essays and Commemorative Volumes
- Transcribed Lectures
- Periodicals and Series
- 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY
- On Bibliography
- Bibliographies
- Form and Function in Historical Writing
- Periodical Catalogues
- Some Indexes to Specific Periodicals
- A Selection among Institutional Catalogues
- Some Indispensable Titles
- Some Notable Approaches to Subject
- The Corpus: A Representative Selection
- Auction and Exhibition Catalogues
- Theoretical and Practical Literature on Exhibitions
- Canadiana
- 3 WRITING
- On Quality in Writing
- The Writing of Art History
- Choosing and Developing a Topic
- Taking Note
- Assumptions
- On Imitation and Emulation in Art History
- The Mechanization of Art History
- Scaling Up and Scaling Down
- Scholarly Generosity
- When Writing for Periodical Publication
- Reviewers and Reviewing
- Diminished Powers, or a Sense of Proportion
- Night Thoughts
- 4 UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC LIFE
- Seminars and Pro-Seminars
- Theses and Dissertations
- Academic Alienation
- Public Lectures
- The Student's Emergency Kit for Notation
- 'Abbreviated Reference' in Archaeology and Art History
- Reference and Notation
- Describing the Work of Art
- Full Bibliographical Reference
- Architectural Reference
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Prints and Drawings
- Photographic Sources and Reproductions
- The Bibliography and Its Intellectual Uses
- 5 CATALOGUING THEORY
- On Cataloguing and Some Unrelated Matters
- Half-a-Dozen Heresies Mainly Regarding Collections, Exhibitions, and Catalogues
- Describing a Work of Art
- The Catalogue Raisonne
- 6 CATALOGUING PRACTICE
- Catalogues: The Search for Form
- Temporary (Loan) Exhibitions
- Permanent-Collection Catalogues
- Some Informational and Notational Problems
- Visitors, Guides, and Installation Shots
- Models
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