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April 14, 2010
Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich, eds. Internationalizing the History of American Art: Views University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780271032009 )
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.40

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The health of a discipline is often revealed in the questions it asks of itself, and in its self-consciousness about its origins and development over time. Internationalizing the History of American Art, edited by Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich, is marked throughout by such questioning and self-examination. It distinguishes itself from other overviews of the development of the history of American art by its critical examination of “the transmission and exchange of ideas about American...