Toward a Geography of Art
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHY
1. The Historiography of the Geography of Art: From Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century
2. The Formulation of a Geography of Art: From the End of the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
3. From Kunstgeographie to Visual Culture: Geographical Ideas about Art from the First World War to the Present
PART TWO: EUROPE
4. Identity in Artistic Geography? Some Considerations of Early Modern Europe
5. Artistic Regions and the Problem of Artistic Metropolises: Questions of (East) Central Europe
6. Dimensions of Diffusion—The Example of Italian Sculptors and Sculpture Outside Italy (Chiefly in Central Europe): Problems of Approach, Possibilities of Reception
PART THREE: THE AMERICAS
7. An Introduction to the Artistic Geography of the Americas: The Limits of Kublers Legacy
8. Circulation East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Jesuit Artists in the Americas
9. Mastery or Mestizaje? Placing an Interpretation of the Façade of San Lorenzo, Potosí
PART 4: JAPAN: THE LIMITS OF DIFFUSIONISM
10. Designed for Desecration: Fumi-e and European Art
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Notes
Index
"Kaufmann’s book, like Corbusier’s [Vers une architecture], reveals possible steps along pathways whose pursuit may transform future ways of seeing. . . . Kaufmann’s consideration of center and periphery, of transformation through diffusion, and, especially, of the historiography of the concept of Kunstgeographie reveal tremendous historical and geographic breadth. Toward a Geography of Art merits the attention of current and future generations of scholars."
Art: Art Criticism | Art--General Studies
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
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