Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history,
this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in
the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the
strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history of
art, and consider the larger issue of the place of comparative in
how art history may develop in the future. The contributors
represent a comprehensive range of period and geographic command
from antiquity to modernity, from China and Islam to Europe, from
various forms of art history to archaeology, anthropology and
material culture studies. Art history is less a single discipline
than a series of divergent scholarly fields - in very different
historical, geographic and cultural contexts - but all with a
visual emphasis on the close examination of objects. These fields
focus on different, often incompatible temporal and cultural
contexts, yet nonetheless they regard themselves as one coherent
discipline - namely the history of art. There are substantive
problems in how the sub-fields within the broad-brush
generalization called 'art history' can speak coherently to each
other. These are more urgent since the shift from an art history
centered on the western tradition to one that is consciously
global.
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