Art History : Its Use and Abuse.
Johnson, W. McAllister.
Art History : Its Use and Abuse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (393 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- 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 Raisonné -- 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 -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind.
9781442671034
Art-Historiography.
Electronic books.
N7480 .J646 1990
707.2
Art History : Its Use and Abuse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (393 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- 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 Raisonné -- 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 -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind.
9781442671034
Art-Historiography.
Electronic books.
N7480 .J646 1990
707.2