SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ART

• Explanatory Texts
• General Sources (Older)
• Comprehensive Sources (More Recent)
• Special Approaches or Topics
• About Art Historians

Explanatory Texts

• Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, and Thomas P. Slavens. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982.

Contains an annotated list of major reference works and supplies a brief description of methodological approaches.
• Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1971.

Lengthy introduction explains various methodologies which are then illustrated by essays.

General Sources (Older)

• Wolfflin, Heinrich. Principles of Art History. New York: Dover, 1950. 
• Schlosser, Julius von. Die Kunstliterature: Ein Handbuch zur Quellenkunde der neuern Kunstgeschichte. Wien: A. Schroll, 1924. 

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• Schlosser, Julius von. La letteratura artistica: manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna. Trans. by F. Rossi. Florence, 1964.

A important early source for methodology, although not complete in the Italian translation. Contains an extensive bibliography of older, classical sources for the study of historiography.
• Riegl, Alois. Die Enstehung der Barockkunst in Rom. Wien: A. Schroll, 1908.

Riegl is a major figure in the early development of art history.
• German Essays on Art History. Ed. by Gert Schiff. New York: Continuum, 1988.

A selection of essays written by art historians who helped to shape modern art history.

Comprehensive Sources (More Recent)

• Barasch, Moshe. Theories of Art: From Plato to Winckelmann. New York: New York University Press, 1985.
• Barasch, Moshe. Modern Theories of Art: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire. New York: New York University Press, 1990. 
• Kulturmann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993.
• Minor, Vernon Hyde. Art History's History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Special Approaches or Topics

• Arnheim, Rudolf. Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
• Belting, Hans. The End of the History of Art Trans. by Christopher S. Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
• Broude, Norma, and Mary D. Garrard. Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
• Calligram: Essays in New Art History From France. Ed. by Norman Bryson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Carrier, David. Principles of Art History Writing. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Historical examination about art writing and how it has changed through the years.
• Early Years of Art History in the United States: Notes and Essays on Departments, Teaching, and Scholars. Ed. by Craig Hugh Smyth and Peter M. Lukehart. Princeton: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1993.
• Goldstein, Carl. Teaching Art: Academies and Schools From Vasari to Albers. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Looks at the academies and schools and how they have shaped art historical writing and vice versa.
• Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art. New York: Vintage, 1957. 4 vol.
• Johnson, W. McAllister. Art History: Its Use and Abuse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

Main focus is on the genre of catalogue writing.
• Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture: An Annotated Bibliography and Historiography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1992.

Lengthy introduction explains various methods of inquiry and cites authors and sources. A very rich source of historiography for the period and subject it covers.
• The New Art History. Ed. by A.L. Rees and Frances Borzello. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1988.
• Preziosi, Donald. Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Problemi di metodo: condizioni di esistenza di una storia dell'arte. (Atti di xxiv Congresso Internazionale di Storia dell'arte) Bologna: Clueb, 1982.

Contributions from several art historians examining aspects of art historical study and writing. Contributions in English, French, German and Italian.
• Soussloff, Catherine M. The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Art Historians

• Brush, Kathryn. The Shaping of Art History: Wilhelm Voge, Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Holly, Michael Ann. Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History. Ithaca: Cornell, 1984.
• Iversen, Margaret. Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
• Podro, Michael. The Critical Historians of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
• Potts, Alex. Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

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