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Title

The Early years of art history in the United States : notes and essays on departments, teaching, and scholars / edited by Craig Hugh Smyth and Peter M. Lukehart.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Smyth, Craig Hugh.
• Lukehart, Peter M., 1955-
• Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology.

Description

xxiii, 205 pages : illustrations, portr.; 28 cm

Subject

• Art > Historiography
• Art > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
• Art schools > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Glimpses of Some Early Departments of the History of Art in the United States -- Introduction to Part I / Craig Hugh Smyth. Princeton: The Beginnings under Marquand / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin -- Appendix I: Venturi's Letter to Marquand -- Appendix II: E. Baldwin Smith, The Study of the History of Art in the Colleges and Universities of the United States (1912). The Princeton Department in the Time of Morey / Craig Hugh Smyth. An Undergraduate's Experience of Fine Arts at Harvard University in the 1920s / Edward M. M. Warburg. Harvard and the Fogg / Agnes Mongan. The Harvard Fine Arts Department / John Coolidge. Harvard Postscript / Otto Wittmann. The Department of Art at Vassar: 1865-1931 / Pamela Askew. The Study of Art at Smith College / Phyllis Williams Lehmann. Arts at Yale University / George Kubler. The Department of Fine Arts for Graduate Students at New York University / Craig Hugh Smyth. History of Art at Columbia University / Julius S. Held.
• Pt. II. Three Decades of Art History in the United States (1910-1940): Five Figures -- Introduction to Part II / Henry A. Millon. Bernard Berenson / Michael Rinehart. Arthur Kingsley Porter: Life, Legend and Legacy / Linda Seidel. Concerning Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) / Craig Hugh Smyth. American Backgrounds: Fiske Kimball's Study of Architecture in the United States / Lauren Weiss Bricker. Richard Offner and the Ineffable: A Problem of Connoisseurship / Hayden B. J. Maginnis -- Pt. III. Institutionalizing Art History: The Early Discipline in the United States -- Introduction to Part III / Donald Preziosi. The Departments of Art, Wellesley College, and the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1875-1914 / Claire Richter Sherman. The Beginnings of Art History at Harvard and the "Fogg Method" / Sybil Gordon Kantor. Formulating Art History at Princeton and the "Humanistic Laboratory" / David Van Zanten.
• Virtue and Good Manners: Toward a History of Art History Instruction / Mary Ann Stankiewicz.

ISBN

0691036454 (pb)

LCCN

93023894

OCLC

• 28221955
• ocm28221955
• SCSB-14482165

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Columbia University Libraries