Title: Histories of American Art: The Changing Quest
Abstract: The history of American art history, now more than one hundred and fifty years old, is in many ways a history of its historians. From the early artists and cultivated men of letters, to critics and artist-writers, then to curators, and, finally, to professors—each succeeding historian has reordered the accounts of earlier historians according to his or her own assumptions about art. What are those assumptions? What were our predecessors looking for in American art? And how does the work of our generation appear in this long view?
Publication Year: 1984
Publication Date: 1984-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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