Bibliography from The Books That Shaped Art History (Shone and Stonard, eds. 2013.)

This post is preliminary to a more in-depth review of the following Shone, Richard and John Paul Stonard, eds. 2013. The Books That Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss. Thames and Hudson.

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Titles

Shone and Stonard present 16 articles on what they feel are key texts in the history of art history, tracing key trends in the movement towards the emergence of visual culture. In order, these 16 monographs are:

1. Mâle, Emile. 1898. L’art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France. [In English, 1978. Religious Art in France: the Twelfth Century: a Study of the Origins of Medieval Iconography. Princeton UP.]
2. Berenson, Bernard. 1903. The Drawings of Florentine Painters Classified, Criticised and Studied as Documents in the History and Appreciation of Tuscan Art. 2 vols. New York: Dutton.
3. Wölfflin, Heinrich. 1915. Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neuren Kunst. [In English, 1932. Principles of Art History. Dover.]
4. Fry, Roger. 1927. Cézanne: A Study of his Development.
5. Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1936. Pioneers of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius. [Later commonly republished as Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius.]
6. Barr, Alfred H., Jr. 1951. Matisse: His Art and His Public.
7. Panofsky, Erwin. 1953. Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character.
8. Clark, Kenneth. 1956. The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art.
9. Gombrich, E. H. 1960. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.
10. Greenberg, Clement. 1961. Art and Culture: Critical Essays.
11. Haskell, Francis. 1963. Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque. Alfred N. Knopf.
12. Baxandall, Michael. 1972. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. Clarendon Press.
13. Clark, T. J. 1973. Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution.
14. Alpers, Svetlana. 1983. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. U Chicago.
15. Krauss, Rosalind E. 1985. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. MIT Press.
16. Belting, Hans. 1990. Bild und Kult: eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. [In English, 1994. Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art. U Chicago.]

“Runners-up”

In the Introduction, Stonard suggests there are several additional monographs which they might have addressed instead, but chose not to for various reasons. These are:

• Warburg, Aby. 1932. Gesammelte Schriften. [In English, 1999. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance.]
• von Schlosser, Julius. 1924. Die Kunstliteratur; ein Handbuch zur Quellenkunde der neueren Kunstgeschichte. [Unavailable in English?]
• Wittkower, Rudolf. 1949. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism.
• Shearman, John. 1967. Mannerism.
• Wölfflin, Heinrich. 1899. Die klassische Kunst: eine Einführung in die italienische Renaissance. [In English, 1952. Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance.]
• Riegl, Aloïs. 1901. Spätrömische Kunstindustrie. [In English, 1985. Late Roman Art Industry. ?]
• Rewald, John. 1946. The History of Impressionism.
• Bell, Clive. 1913. Art.
• Kubler, George. 1962. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things.
• Blunt, Anthony. 1967. Nicolas Poussin.
• Fried, Michael. 1980. Absorption and theatricality: painting and beholder in the age of Diderot.

Notable Omissions

Despite mentioning some of these names, the editors seemed disinterested in considering the following as either significant or influential to the field (I am certain there are others):

• Berger, John.
• Danto, Arthur C.
• Hauser, Arnold.
• Lippard, Lucy R.
• Morris, William.
• Read, Herbert.
• Rosler, Martha.
• Ruskin, John.

TDSB: External Research Applications and Guidelines (link)

Guidelines and application forms for researchers external to the TDSB can be found at this link: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/AboutUs/Research/ExternalResearchApplication.aspx

The approval seems generally about research proposed in schools, with students, during day classes. It also seems to apply to externally funded candidates, but it isn’t clear how proposals from independent researchers might be viewed and handled.

There’s no real sense of whether and to what degree applications are approved or declined, nor what support is provided to assist researchers in amending declined apps. Indeed, the requisite nine collated copies of the five-page application form seems to suggest a discontiguous system in which such assistance is not forthcoming.

Geeking out: bibliography formatting in word with papers2

Geeking out: bibliography formatting in word with papers2

please allow me to geek out a bit. 

several years back, i came across tools to help write my dissertation: some for the iPad (for annotating pdfs and organizing preliminary ideas), some for the desktop (for writing/editing, and for bibliographic management), and some for “real life” (work/life balance, etc.). while i have adopted only some tools and practices, others have been crucial at early stages but not so much later, and vice versa. 

i bought papers2 and scrivener at roughly the same time to manage my resources and coordinate all the writing for my dissertation, respectively. while scrivener was a no-brainer, papers2 was my choice after a bit of a test drive: zotero, sente, mendeley, refworks, endnote, and evernote didn’t fit the bill at the time, for one reason or another. 

one of the main reasons i got papers2 is because it didn’t seem to fuss around with citations inserted into scrivener – although i didn’t really need to worry about that at the time, i did want to make sure that the library i had developed (thousands of references in print and pdf) wouldn’t need to be completely scrapped when it came time to formatting all my inline citations and bibliography (which could be well into the hundreds).

when you call it from scrivener, papers2 inserts one or more references roughly in the format of …

{Smith:1997tu}

… with curly braces on either side of a unique identifier for the item in your papers2 library. if you leave it like that, it’ll generate an inline citation, footnote, or endnote (depending on the format) with all the nuances of that style (Chicago, APA, MLA, among many others). 

however, and as the link attached to this post demonstrates, you can modify the stuff within the curly braces in a whole bunch of ways – by adding page numbers, for example, suppressing the author name (so only the year of publication shows up), or including parenthetical comments alongside the reference (like “also see Smith 1997”). 

i know it’s pretty geeky, but it also saves time and worry at the end of the process of writing a long and difficult manuscript to not have to then format a possibly 20+ page of references (let alone fuss over all the inline stuff within the text).