TY - JOUR
T1 - The Repressive Logic of a Profession?
T2 - On the Use of Reproductions in Art History
AU - Dam Christensen, Hans
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - In the discourses of Art History, the art objects are primarily present through representations. Art historians do see an abundance of works of art, but when they write and read about art and the history of art, the works of art are absent more often than not - in fact, the majority of these objects will without doubt only appear as reproductions in books and journals as well as slides in auditoriums. Knowledge on art and the history of art is produced, disseminated and storaged in the art history system: libraries, university courses, conferences, archives, study rooms etc. Does it make a difference to scholarship whether the subject of analysis is the original work of art or its reproduction? Three cases discuss this difference from a historiographical point of view.
AB - In the discourses of Art History, the art objects are primarily present through representations. Art historians do see an abundance of works of art, but when they write and read about art and the history of art, the works of art are absent more often than not - in fact, the majority of these objects will without doubt only appear as reproductions in books and journals as well as slides in auditoriums. Knowledge on art and the history of art is produced, disseminated and storaged in the art history system: libraries, university courses, conferences, archives, study rooms etc. Does it make a difference to scholarship whether the subject of analysis is the original work of art or its reproduction? Three cases discuss this difference from a historiographical point of view.
KW - kunsthistoriens historie
KW - Max J. Friedländer
KW - Julius Lange
KW - Winckelmann
KW - reproduktioner
KW - history of art history; reproductions; Winckelmann; Julius Lange; Max J. Friedländer
U2 - 10.1080/00233609.2010.509550
DO - 10.1080/00233609.2010.509550
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0023-3609
VL - 79
SP - 200
EP - 215
JO - Konsthistorisk Tidskrift
JF - Konsthistorisk Tidskrift
IS - 4
ER -