Kunstgeschichten Der Gegenwart – serie

To survey art history as a whole was a pressing task for a generation of German scholars around the mid-nineteenth century. Their projections of a historicist chain of artworks ranged from textual narratives without illustrations, to separate picture compendia as well as images of a more allegorical kind. Other means with which to picture art history as part of a virtually all-encompassing cultural history were the museums of art erected in Germany at the time, in Berlin and Munich especially.This book deals with practices of representing art history in various media. This includes post-Hegelian texts and engravings of art history from the 1840s onwards, by Franz Kugler, Julius Schnorr and others. In addition, works of art of the late twentieth century, by Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer and others, provide opportunities to speculate on the after-effects and discursive traces of the old regime. Extending the concept of historiography to include not just textual or institutional endeavours, but a host of different images as well, from reproductive prints to pop paintings and visual archives of the digital era, this study is intended to contribute in new ways to a critical historiography of the field of art history and visual culture today.

Diese Anthologie versammelt 15 Beiträge internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren, die sich mit Fragen der Einschreibung und Institutionalisierung von Gender Studies in der Disziplin Kunstgeschichte auseinander setzen. Diskutiert werden einerseits die kunsthistorische Kanonbildung und die Möglichkeiten des Zugangs von Künstlerinnen in das Kunstsystem. Anderseits werden transgressive, hybride Bilder von «Weiblichkeit» und «Männlichkeit» von der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart untersucht sowie neuere Ansätze postkolonialer und queerer Theorie vorgestellt. Ce volume rassemble 15 contributions d’auteur-e-s de réputation internationale qui abordent la question de l’inscription et de l’institutionnalisation des études genre dans la discipline de l’histoire de l’art. La constitution des canons artistiques, tout comme les possibilités d’accès des femmes au système artistique sont analysées. Par ailleurs, les représentations hybrides et transgressives de la « féminité » et de la « masculinité » sont interrogées de la Renaissance à nos jours, ainsi que les apports des études post-coloniales et queer. Written by authors of international repute, the 15 articles compiled here address the inscription and institutionalisation of gender studies in the field of art history. They analyze the formation of art-historical canons and the possibilities for women of accessing the art system. Moreover, they explore transgressive, hybrid images of «femininity» and «masculinity» from the early modern times to the present. Recent approaches in post-colonial and queer theory are also discussed.