American art history is a remarkably young, but rapidly growing,
discipline. Membership in the Association of Historians of American
Art, founded in 1979, now totals nearly 600. As a result of this
growth, geographical and cultural borders no longer contain the
field. American art history has become "internationalized,"
represented by scholars and exhibitions around the globe. While
this international transmission and exchange of ideas will
certainly prove to be valuable, it has been left largely
unexamined. Internationalizing the History of American Art begins a
critical examination of this exchange, showing how it has become
part of the maturation of American art history.
In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars considers the
shaping and dissemination of the history of American art
domestically and internationally, past and present, theoretically
and practically, from a variety of intellectual positions and
experiences. To do so, they draw on a literature that,
collectively, constitutes a bibliography for the future of the
field. Three sections--"American Art and Art History," "Display and
Exposition," and "Post-1945 Investments"--provide the structure in
which the contributors examine the existing narrative framework for
the history of American art. This examination indicates a direction
for the field and a future historiography that is shaped by
international dialogue.
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