The Author: Dan Karlholm, Associate Professor at Södertörn University College in Stockholm. His main research interests cover the history and theory of Art History, modern visual culture and museum studies.

«Karlholm's range is impressive and his command of nineteenth-century intellectual history, as well as contemporary critical theory, is formidable. This study should be getting much more attention than it has yet garnered. Anyone who works in or close to the study of art history really needs to read this book.» (Michael Ann Holly, Visual Resources)

• Contents: Historiography in a new vein, encompassing texts as well as images – First text of general art history: ‘Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte’ (1841-42) by Franz Theodor Kugler – Art history and tourism, through the travel literature by John Murray, Karl Baedecker, Jacob Burckhardt and Ernst Förster – The «Hegelian» museums of art in mid-nineteenth-century Germany, in Berlin and Munich especially, with respect, in particular, to the decorative design – Visual culture and/as art history, from the early nineteenth century until today – History and theory of art and representation in Germany and beyond – Artists discussed include Gustave Courbet, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Anselm Kiefer, Ruth Orkin, Gerhard Richter, Carl Rottmann, Julius Schnorr, Laurie Simmons, Andy Warhol.