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 GUIDE TO RESOURCES ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ART  
This guide offers a selective, annotated list of sources on the historiography of art. For further bibliography, see Arntzen/Rainwater, Guide to the literature of art history (Chicago: American Library Association, 1980), Chapter G, pp. 75-78 (Ref Z 5931 +.A67 [LC]).

Bibliography

Ackerman, James S. and Carpenter, Rhys. Art and archaeology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963. J 12 .Ac57 1963 (Yale)

Essays on archaeology by Carpenter and on Western art history by Ackerman. Each surveys the development, methods and present state of the discipline.

Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art de Vasari á nos jours. Paris: Flammarion, 1986. On order Long, anecdotal "history of art history from Vasari to the present."

Dittman, Lorenz. Stil, Symbol Struktur: Studien zu Kategorien der Kunstgeschichte. Munich: Fink, 1967. SML J 502 967 Dm (Yale)

Historical study of various schools of art history.

Dresdner, Albert. Die Entstehung der Kunstkritik, im Zusammenhang der Geschichte des europäischen Kunstlebens. Munich: Bruckmann, 1968 (1st ed. 1915). SML J 718 968D

History of art criticism from antiquity through the 18th century. See also Venturi.

Eissler, Colin. "Kunstgeschichte American-style," pp. 544-629 in The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960, ed. by B. Bailyn and D. Fleming. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1969. CCL E 169.1 .F54 (LC)

Long biographical essay on émigré art historians in America.

Frankl, Paul. Das System der Kunstwissenschaft. Brünn: Rohrer, 1938. SML J 2 356f

One of the most ambitious attempts to provide a system of art history. Product of the "Vienna School" of art history.

Gombrich, E.H. "Kunstliteratur" and "Kunstwissenschaft" in Atlantisbuch der Kunst: Eine Enzyklopädie der bildenden Künste. Zurich: Atlantis, 1952.

Long, excellent encyclopedia entries on art literature from antiquity to mid-century and on the history of art history as a discipline. An English version of the former is available at this WWW site.

Grassi, Luigi. Teorici e storia della critica d'arte. 2 v. Rome: Multigrafica, 1970-73. N 7475 .G73 (LC)

Comprehensive survey of art criticism and theory from antiquity to the 18th century. Two more volumes were promised but have not appeared.

Grinten, Evert van der. Enquiries into the history of art-historical writing: studies of art-historical functions and terms up to 1850 [Venlo?: 1952?]. J 12 952 h

Hauser, Arnold. The philosophy of art history. New York: Knopf, 1959. J 25 958 Hg

Study of major theories of art history. Provides the philosophical foundation for Hauser's well-known Social history of art.

Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern perspectives in Western art history: an anthology of 20th-century writings on the visual arts. New York: Holt, 1971 Ref N 7443.2 .K54 (LC)

Standard anthology of representative writings by leading art historians. The 100-page Introduction is a good bibliographical essay on the history of art history as a discipline.

________, and Slavens, Thomas. Research guide to the history of western art. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982. SML L&B Room N 380 .K56 1982 (LC)

Part one is a survey of the various methodological and theoretical approaches to art history; the second part is a short, annotated (and flawed) bibliography of basic reference books.

Kultermann, Udo. History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993. N 7480 .K78 1993 (LC)

Long "history of art history" from a biographical standpoint. The original German ed. was harshly critiqued by L. D. Ettlinger in Architectural review (Nov. 1967).

Lavalleye, Jacques. Introduction aux études d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art. 4th ed. Louvain: Mauwelaerts, 1979. SML Ref N 380 .L38 1979

Handbook on art historical method, intended for French students.

Lodovici, Sergio Samek. Storici, teorici e critici delle arti figurative (1800-1940). Rome: Tosi, 1942. SML CT 1123 +.E52 4 (LC)

Panofsky, Erwin. Aufsätze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft. Ed. by H. Oberer and E. Verheyen. 2nd ed. Berlin: Hessling, 1974. N 7480 .P36 1974 (LC

Collection of Panofsky's theoretical and methodological essays.

________. "The history of art as a humanistic discipline" in Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history. New York: Doubleday, 1955. J 12 P194 955 (Yale)

________. "Three decades of art history in the United States" in ibid. Autobiographical reflections. J 12 P194 955 (Yale

Salerno, Luigi. "Historiography" in Encyclopedia of world art, v. 7, p. 507-59. Ref N 31 +.E5213 1959 (LC)

Overview of the historiography of art, East and West. With ample bibliography.

Schiff, Gert, ed. German essays on art history. New York: Continuum, 1987.

Replacement copy on order at A&A

Schlosser, Julius von. Die Wiener Schule der Kunstgeschichte. Innsbruck: Wagner, 1934. J 35 A9 V675 934S

Sorenson, Lee, Dictionary of Art Historians (http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/dah.htm).

Tietze, Hans. Die Methode der Kunstgeschichte: Ein Versuch. Leipzig: Seemann, 1913. Rpt. 1967. SML N 7475 .T54 (LC)

Comprehensive survey of art historical methodology, by a distinguished member of the Vienna School of art history.

Venturi, Lionello. History of art criticism. New York: Dutton, 1936. J 718 936Vg

Standard English-language history of the subject.

Waetzoldt, Wilhelm. Deutsche Kunsthistoriker. 2 v. Leipzig: Seemann, 1921-24. Rpt. 1986. N 6868.5 .N37D55 1988

Biographical survey of German art historians from the 17th century to the early 20th.


        
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