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Otten, University of Chicago VOLUME 212 Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History General Editor Robert Zwijnenberg, Leiden University VOLUME 4 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/bsih Art History and Visual Studies in Europe Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks Edited by Matthew Rampley Thierry Lenain Hubert Locher Andrea Pinotti Charlotte Schoell-Glass Kitty Zijlmans LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 This book was supported by funds made available by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which was established in 1974 to provide a common platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research collaboration and explore new directions for research. This publication was supported by grants from the Aby Warburg-Stiftung and the Hamburgische Wissenschaftlich Stiftung, both in Hamburg. Cover illustration: Elliott Erwitt. Personal. 1996. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos. 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CONTENTS List of Contributors ........................................................................................ ix Preface and Acknowledgements ................................................................ xv Thierry Lenain, Hubert Locher, Andrea Pinotti, Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Matthew Rampley and Kitty Zijlmans Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Matthew Rampley PART ONE METHODS, DEBATES AND PARADIGMS Art History, Aesthetics and Art Criticism ............................................... 17 Antonio Somaini The Idea of the Canon and Canon Formation in Art History .......... 29 Hubert Locher European Heritage: Unity in Diversity? ................................................... 41 Brian Graham Contemporary Art and the Concept of Art History: Influence, Dependency and Challenge .................................................................... 59 Peter J. Schneemann Formalism and the History of Style .......................................................... 75 Andrea Pinotti Visual Culture and Visual Studies .............................................................. 91 Jan Baetens Theories of the Image in France: Between Art History and Visual Anthropology ................................................................................. 107 Ralph Dekoninck vi contents Bildwissenschaft: Theories of the Image in German-Language Scholarship ................................................................................................... 119 Matthew Rampley Computerization, Digitization and the Internet ................................... 135 Antonella Sbrilli Technical Art History: The Synergy of Art, Conservation and Science .......................................................................................................... 151 Erma Hermens Dimensions of Dialogue: Art History and the Discourse of Economics .................................................................................................... 167 Victor Ginsburgh and François Mairesse Sociologies of Art: With and against Art History .................................. 185 Nathalie Heinich Museums and Museologies .......................................................................... 197 Dominique Poulot Art History in a Global Frame: World Art Studies ............................... 217 Wilfried van Damme and Kitty Zijlmans The Construction of National Art Histories and the ‘New’ Europe ............................................................................................... 231 Matthew Rampley PART TWO THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE DISCIPLINE Cultures of Interruptions. Art History in the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ................................................................................. 249 Krista Kodres, Giedrė Mickūnaitė and Stella Pelše In Search of a Synthesis: Art History in Belgium .................................. 275 Raphaël Pirenne contents vii Art History in Bulgaria: Institutional Frameworks, Research Directions and Individual Scholars ...................................................... 287 Elka Bakalova Art History in the Czech and Slovak Republics: Institutional Frameworks, Topics and Loyalties ....................................................... 305 Milena Bartlová Art History in France: A Conflict of Traditions ..................................... 315 Ralph Dekoninck and Joël Roucloux Art History in German-Speaking Countries: Austria, Germany and Switzerland .......................................................................................... 335 Charlotte Schoell-Glass Art History and Visual Studies in Great Britain and Ireland ............ 355 Griselda Pollock Born of a ‘Peripheral’ Modernism: Art History in Greece and Cyprus ............................................................................................................ 379 Areti Adamopoulou Art History in Italy: Connoisseurship, Academic Scholarship and the Protection of Cultural Heritage ............................................. 393 Laura Iamurri Art History in the Netherlands: The Past and Present of the Discipline ...................................................................................................... 407 Marga van Mechelen and Kitty Zijlmans Art History in the Nordic Countries ......................................................... 421 Dan Karlholm, Hans Dam Christensen and Matthew Rampley A Marginalised Tradition? Polish Art History ........................................ 439 Wojciech Bałus In Search of National Traditions: Art History in Romania ................ 451 Corina Teacă viii contents Art History in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia .............. 461 Nenad Makuljević Art History in Spain: A Generational History ........................................ 473 Gonzalo M. Borrás Gualis Art History and the Founding of the Modern Turkish State ............ 485 Burcu Dogramaci Bibliography ..................................................................................................... 493 Dennis Janzen Index ................................................................................................................... 543 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Areti Adamopoulou is Assistant Professor in Art History at the Univer- sity of Ioannina, Greece. She has published widely on twentieth-century Greek art, with a particular emphasis on the post-war period. Jan Baetens is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the University of Leuven. His research interests focus on new media and on the relation between image and narrative. Recent books include studies of Hergé and of the bande dessinée, as well as contemporary photography of the Low Countries. Elka Bakalova is Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Art at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia) and corresponding member of the Bulgar- ian Academy of Sciences. She is the editor of Problemi na izkoustvoto (Art Studies) a quarterly journal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and has published widely on the medieval art of Bulgaria and the Balkans. Wojciech Bałus is Professor of Art History at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. His research interests are centred on nineteenth and twentieth- century painting and architecture. Books include studies of nineteenth- century architecture and public space in Cracow, and nineteenth-century