The Crisis in Art History

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Eleonore Stump, Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), esp. 89-110. Jean Bony, French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 1. Olaf Pedersen, First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe, trans. Richard North (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), esp. 131, "no medieval university ever grew up in the country." The assessment of value in such an "intellectual stock market" is, of course, closely linked to the agency of professional organizations like the College Art Association. Eric Fernie, Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology (London: Phaidon, 1995), esp. 10-18. Skepticism is directed particularly at Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (Latrobe, PA: Archabbey Press, 1957); Erwin Panofsky, Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St-Denis and Its Art Treasure (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946); Henri Focillon, Art of the West in the Middle Ages, ed. and intro. Jean Bony (London: Phaidon, 1963); Jean Bony, "The Resistance to Chartres in Early Thirteenth- Century Architecture," Journal of the British Archaeological Association, series 3: 20-21 (1957-1958): 35-52; Robert Branner, Saint Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture (London: A. Zwemmer, 1965); Paul Frankl, Gothic Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962); Willibald Sauerländer, Von Sens bis Strassburg. Ein Beitrag zur kunstgeschichtlichen Stellung der Strassburger Querhausskulpturen (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1966). Hans Belting, Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte? (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1983; trans. Christopher S. Wood, The End of the History of Art? [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987]). Willibald Sauerländer, "Mod Gothic," New York Review of Books 31, no. 7 (November 8, 1984): 43-44. Michael Camille, "Art History in the Past and Future of Medieval Studies," in The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), 362-82. Michael Davis, "Sic et Non: Recent Trends in the Study of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58 (1999): 34-66; Paul Crossley, Introduction to Gothic Architecture, by Paul Frankl (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), 7-34. Stephen Murray, "Art History and the New Media: Representation and the Production of Humanistic Knowledge," in Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship, Report of a Workshop Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009), 57-61; http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf. For a sense of current excitement in art historical research, see What is Research in the Visual Arts: Obsession, Archive, Encounter, ed. Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008). L'homme et la matière: l'emploi du plomb et du fer dans l'architecture gothique, Actes du colloque, Noyon, November 16-17, 2006, ed. Arnaud Timbert (Paris: Picard, 2009

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