The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847 1918

by Matthew Rampley

Book Overview

Matthew Rampley's The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence of art history as a discipline, the establishment of norms of scholarly inquiry, and the involvement of art historians in wider debates about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271061588
• ISBN13: 9780271061580
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 10.3"