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April 28, 2010
Elizabeth Mansfield, ed. Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions New York: Routledge, 2007. 288 pp.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $43.95 (9780415372350)
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While the essays in Art History and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline, edited by Elizabeth Mansfield (New York: Routledge, 2002), explored art history’s beginnings as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, her latest edited volume on the subject, Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and its Institutions, examines its recent past. The consistently high-quality contributions link principles and assumptions that have structured art-historical study with current dilemmas and developments. Key for Mansfield is...