Art History and Visual Studies in Europe—Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks

The 31 essays of this handbook--its scope extends beyond a mere collection--derive from a series of workshops organized by an international group organized by Matthew Rampley (U. of Birmingham, the UK) and others in Europe. The central themes concern the history of the study of art, the thought and influence of leading early art historians, and particularly the continuing tendency for art history to maintain a focus within the boundaries of a single nation, or related national groups, on the one hand, and the shape of the practice of art history within these individual countries and cultures, on the other. The first section is devoted to more general topics, including the impact of digitization on museums, sociology and art, economics and art history, and the weight of French and German thought on the field. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Matthew Rampley is Professsor in the History of Art of the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on aesthetics and the historiography of art, with a particular focus on Nietzsche, Warburg, Riegl and the Vienna School of Art History, and is associate editor of the Journal of Art Historiography.Thierry Lenain is Professor of Art Theory at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Published works include studies of forgery, monkey painting and the image in Deleuze, Foucault and Lyotard.Hubert Locher is Professor of the History and Theory of the Image, and Director of the German Art Historical Documentation Centre of the Philipps University, Marburg. Alongside work on the Renaissance, specifically, Alberti, Raphael and Ghirlandaio, he has also written and edited numerous books on museum and exhibitionary practice, art theory and the historiography of art.Andrea Pinotti is Professor of Philosophy at the Universita degli Studi, Milan. He has written widely on German nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetics and its place within the historiography of art, including books on Riegl, Warburg and Walter Benjamin.Charlotte Schoell-Glass is Professor of Art History at the University of Hamburg. A member of the editorial board of Word & Image, her research interests focus on the relation between image and text, and she has also published on Aby Warburg, including a critical edition of the Diary of the Warburg Library in Hamburg and a study of Warburg and anti-Semitism. Kitty Zijlmans is Director of the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines. Her main areas of research and publication have been contemporary art, the theory and methodologies of art history and world art studies as a new disciplinary paradigm.