‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019

Terry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few decades. This review takes up Smith’s invitat...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Mansfield
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Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/mansfield-rev.pdf
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description Terry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few decades. This review takes up Smith’s invitation to understand Art to Come as historiography and argues that the book is a model for a mode of art writing that is simultaneously art historical and historiographical.
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spelling doaj.art-3e25f1f389834c89930973ad1ec4b5c22023-01-10T14:31:19ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522022-12-012727EM110.48352/uobxjah.00004183‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019Elizabeth Mansfield0 University of Pennsylvania Terry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few decades. This review takes up Smith’s invitation to understand Art to Come as historiography and argues that the book is a model for a mode of art writing that is simultaneously art historical and historiographical. https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/mansfield-rev.pdfcontemporary artconnectivitycontemporaneityempiricismglobal art historyart of the 21st centuryart historical methodologyart history as historiographyinterpretive restraintpost-cold war artself-reflexivity
spellingShingle Elizabeth Mansfield
‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
Journal of Art Historiography
contemporary art
connectivity
contemporaneity
empiricism
global art history
art of the 21st century
art historical methodology
art history as historiography
interpretive restraint
post-cold war art
self-reflexivity
title ‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
title_full ‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
title_fullStr ‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
title_full_unstemmed ‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
title_short ‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019
title_sort field notes contemporary art history as historiography review of terry smith art to come histories of contemporary art durham and london duke university press 2019
topic contemporary art
connectivity
contemporaneity
empiricism
global art history
art of the 21st century
art historical methodology
art history as historiography
interpretive restraint
post-cold war art
self-reflexivity
url https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/mansfield-rev.pdf
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