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Internationalizing the History of American Art:

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A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich

I. American Art and Art History

1. Newness, Flatness, and Other Myths: Looking for National Identity in European (and a Few British) Histories of American Art

Rebecca Zurier

2. Mutual Seduction: German Art History and American Art

Jochen Wierich

3. American Art Pre-1940 and the Problem of Art History's Object

Andrew Hemingway

4. Beyond the Borders: Nineteenth-Century British and American Art in Comparative Perspective

David Peters Corbett

II. Display and Exposition

5. The Absolute Past: Your Version or Ours? Canadian Constructions of Pre-1945 American Art History

Marylin McKay

6. An Artistic Tradition in the Making: Looking at American Art in French Nineteenth-Century Criticism

Veerle Thielemans

7. Ceci n'est pas un musée: Distance and Resistance in Franco-American Cultural Displays

Derrick R. Cartwright

8. Transatlantic Complexities: A Traveling Exhibition About Traveling Artists

Sophie Levy

III. Post-1945 Investments

9. Ménage à trois: Paris, New York, São Paolo, and the Love of Modern Art

Serge Guilbaut

10. The “Triumph” of American Art? Pop Art in the Postwar World

Christin J. Mamiya

Notes

Contributors

Index


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