Art History: Contemporary Perspectives On Method (art History Special Issues)

This page intentionally left blank ART HISTORY Art History Special Issue Book Series In this distinctive series, developed from the annual special issue of Art History, leading scholars are invited to publish new research on key issues and to reflect on contemporary concerns in the discipline. Each collection of essays takes a particular theme and the scope is wide: from painting and sculpture to photography and video, urban history and architecture, institutions, collecting, and historiography. Titles in the series include: Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266–1713: New Approaches Edited by Cordelia Warr and Janis Elliott About Mieke Bal Edited by Deborah Cherry Spectacle and Display Edited by Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen Location Edited by Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen About Stephen Bann Edited by Deborah Cherry Between Luxury and the Everyday: Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France Edited by Katie Scott and Deborah Cherry Art: History: Visual: Culture Edited by Deborah Cherry Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice Edited by Gill Perry Tracing Architecture: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism Edited by Dana Arnold and Stephen Bending Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly Edited by Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin Fingering Ingres Edited by Susan Siegfried and Adrian Rifkin The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities for London, c. 1750–1950 Edited by Dana Arnold About Michael Baxandall Edited by Adrian Rifkin Image: Music: Text Edited by Marcia Pointon, Simon Miller and Paul Binski ART HISTORY CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON METHOD EDITED BY DANA ARNOLD This edition first published 2010 Originally published as Volume 32, Issue 4 of Art History r 2010 Association of Art Historians Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/ wiley-blackwell. The right of Dana Arnold to be identified as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trade