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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Rereading James Jackson Jarves’s Art-Idea
2 Clarence Cook and Jarves: Fact, Feeling, and the Discourse of Truthfulness in Art
3 A Further Look at Clarence Cook and the “Revolution” in Art
4 William J. Stillman’s Ruskinian Criticism: Metaphor and Essential Meaning
5 Art Discourse After Ruskin: Time and History in Art
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“One cannot embark upon an analysis of how historical periodization took shape without being keenly aware of one’s own historical desires and their enactment in writing; these thoughtful concerns inform Georgi’s philosophy of history and undergird her historiographic enterprise. . . . Given the need for thorough, subtle, and complex analyses of historical art criticism in America, this investigation offers the tantalizing glimpse of what such projects might look like, if done with great restraint and attention to the intertwining of rhetoric and belief. The care with which she sets forth the boundaries of her study demonstrates how sensitive Georgi is to the failures any such ‘comprehensive’ study might risk in creating its own mythologized history.”
—Emily Gephart, Journal of Art Historiography
