Art History after Modernism
236 pages
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48 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2003
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
I - Modernism in the Mirror of Contemporary Culture
1. Epilogues for Art or for Art History?
2. The Meaning of Art History in Today’s Culture
3. Art Criticism versus Art History
4. The Unwelcome Heritage of Modernism: Style and History
5. The Late Cult of Modernism: Documenta and Western Art
6. Western Art: The Intervention of the United States in Postwar Modernism
7. Europe: East and West at the Watershed of Art History
8. Global Art and Minorities: A New Geography of Art History
9. The Mirror of Mass Culture: Art’s Revolt against Art History
10. The Temporality of Video Art
11. The Narrative of Art in the New Museum: The Search for a Profile
II - The End of Art History?
12. Art and the Crisis of Modernism
13. Art Historiography as Tradition
14. Methods and Games of an Academic Discipline
15. Work of Art or History of Art?
16. Art History versus Media Studies
17. The Myth of Modernism in the Mirror of Art History
18. Postmodernism or Posthistory?
19. "Prospero’s Books"
20. Marco Polo and Other Cultures
Bibliography
Index
1. Epilogues for Art or for Art History?
2. The Meaning of Art History in Today’s Culture
3. Art Criticism versus Art History
4. The Unwelcome Heritage of Modernism: Style and History
5. The Late Cult of Modernism: Documenta and Western Art
6. Western Art: The Intervention of the United States in Postwar Modernism
7. Europe: East and West at the Watershed of Art History
8. Global Art and Minorities: A New Geography of Art History
9. The Mirror of Mass Culture: Art’s Revolt against Art History
10. The Temporality of Video Art
11. The Narrative of Art in the New Museum: The Search for a Profile
II - The End of Art History?
12. Art and the Crisis of Modernism
13. Art Historiography as Tradition
14. Methods and Games of an Academic Discipline
15. Work of Art or History of Art?
16. Art History versus Media Studies
17. The Myth of Modernism in the Mirror of Art History
18. Postmodernism or Posthistory?
19. "Prospero’s Books"
20. Marco Polo and Other Cultures
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Arthur Danto | Art Newspaper
“The value of the book lies in the way in which it shows a great art historian grappling on our behalf with the question of what it means to practice art history in an art world in which so much that was taken for granted, even in the era of Modernism, has crumpled under pressures that no one could have anticipated. It is rare to find an individual possessed of Professor Belting’s profound scholarship exhibiting such cosmopolitan openness and curiosity to new media, new strategies of exhibition, new ways of thinking about and responding to art, new ways of understanding the relationship between art criticism and art history, when it would have been so easy to turn one’s back on the chaos . . .”<\#209>Arthur Danto, <I>Art Newspaper
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