Art History

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Art history is a vast discipline, geographically, historically, and intellectually. In its initial centuries, art history dealt with Western art, but the boundaries of the field have since expanded. The canon continues to be redefined as histories of art in regions that had previously been ignored are brought into the mainstream. Traditional emphases on European art have been reduced, as the discipline reaches world-wide dimensions in which connections as much as differences have increasingly come into focus. Originating as a study much informed by ancient art, and then by the art of the Renaissance, the historical dimension of the discipline has also continuously advanced with time. More and more works and types of objects are made throughout the world, and art historians’ interests have increasingly shifted to more recent art. In the past half century art historians have also engaged more and more with questions of theory, method, and the history of the discipline. New approaches, often borrowed from other fields, have proliferated.

As a result of all this flux and ferment, it has become progressively more difficult to grasp the literature of the field, and to gain an orientation to current and perennial problems. Oxford Bibliographies in Art History responds to these needs and offers a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload. Whether an expert in contemporary European art needs to read up on the art of ancient China for a book project or an undergraduate student needs to start a research paper on iconography in Renaissance art, Oxford Bibliographies in Art History will provide a trusted source of selective bibliographic guidance.

 

Editor in Chief Basile Baudez is Associate Professor of architectural history in the Art & Archaeology department at Princeton University after having taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. His first book, Architecture et Tradition Académique au Siècle des Lumières questions the role of architects in early modern European academies. He co-edited several volumes on the history of architecture such as A Civic Utopia. Architecture and the City in France, 1765-1837, Chalgrin et son Temps. Architectes et architecture entre l’Ancien Régime et l’Empire and most recently Textile in Architecture from the Middle Ages to Modernism. He curated several shows devoted to architectural drawings, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and at the Courtauld Institute in London. His latest monograph, Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe was the 2022 winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

 

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AREA EDITORS

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FORMER EDITOR IN CHIEF

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FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD

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ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

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18th-Century Art

19th-Century Art

20th-Century and Modern Art

African Art

Ancient and Classical Art

Art Materials and Techniques

Art of the Middle East and North Africa

Art of the United States

Art Theory and Methodology

Byzantine and Medieval Art

Contemporary Art

East Asian Art

Latin American and Caribbean Art

Oceanic and Australian Art

Renaissance and Baroque Art

South and Southeast Asian Art

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