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title	:	What Is Art History?
author	:	Roskill, Mark W.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087023675X
print isbn13	:	9780870236754
ebook isbn13	:	9780585244631
language	:	English
subject	Art--Historiography.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	N380.R67 1989eb
ddc	:	707/.2
subject	:	Art--Historiography.

Page i What is Art History?

Page ii Frontispiece: Masaccio and Filippino Lippi, The Story of Theophilus. Brancacci Chapel, S.Maria del Carmine, Florence. The white lines indicate the sections of fresco painted on successive days (giornate). See p. 50.

Page iii What is Art History? Mark Roskill Second edition

Page iv For Jonathan, Andrew and Damian who by hook or by crook will be first in this book. Published by arrangement with Thames and Hudson, London Copyright 1976 and 1989 by Thames and Hudson, Ltd, London Second edition published by The University of Massachusetts Press, 1989 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 894749 ISBN 087023675X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roskill, Mark W., 1933 What is art history? / Mark Roskill.2nd ed. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 087023675X (alk. paper) 1. ArtHistoriography. I. Title. N380.R67 1989 707'.2dc19 894749 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v Contents Introduction to the Second Edition 3 Preface 7 Introduction: the origins and growth of art history 9 Chapter one The attribution of paintings: some case histories 19 Chapter two Collaboration between two artists: Masaccio and Masolino 37 Chapter three Deciding the limits of an artist's work: Piero della Francesca 55 Chapter four Cutting through mystery and legend: Giorgione 73 Chapter five Reconstructing how works were displayed: Raphael's tapestries in the Sistine Chapel 105 Chapter six A forgotten artist rediscovered: Georges De La Tour 123 Chapter seven Disguised meaning in pictures: Vermeer and Velasquez 139 Chapter eight Forgery and its detection: the hand of Han van Meegeren 155 Chapter nine Understanding a modern picture: Picasso's Guernica 169 Epilogue: the art historian today 181 References and books for further reading 183 Index 189

Page vi Photographic Acknowledgments All photographs are the copyright of the museums concerned, with the following exceptions: A.C.L. 112-14, 116-20 Alinari 35, 36, 45-47, 50, 51, 54, 55, 60, 66, 95 Anderson 38, 43, 44, 56, 58, 76, 77, 80, 83 Annan 102 Cameraphoto 62, 68 Country Life 12 A. Dingjan 16, 101 Gabinetto Fotografico, Uffizi 8, 29, 30 Giraudon 87-90, 107 Greater London Council 110 S. F. James 72 Mansell Collection 1, 2, 25, 31-34, 42, 53 Novosti 63 Walter Steinkopf 65, 91 Roger Viollet 6

Page 3 Introduction to the Second Edition This book was conceived in the early 1970s as what may be termed a service text. It was designed to help stimulate interest in the field of art history by setting out something of its basic character in an engaging form. On the analogy of what applied in a field such as archaeology, the introduction provided was not of a "how to do it" sort, but one that could help to close the gap between layperson or beginner and expert by making at least parts of what went on in the practice of art history more accessible. The book was to be taken as a starting point, in that spirit, together with other kinds of exposure. When I used it myself for an undergraduate class, the students went with me to a local museum, where the director sat them round the table in his boardroom and offered them an outline of what his work entailed before taking them through the collections; we also visited a conservation department and looked at what went on there. Essential to such a conception of the text was an exposition which could be followed without running into the sense of a specialized or overly technical language. The considerations and justifications which have most importantly shaped the development of art history could be set out in this way so as to give a purchase on the question of how what is known and said has come to take a certain form. In stopping short of an encompassing answer to the question that its title poses, the book also stops short of opening up to examination why uncertainty and radical disagreements of principle should be rife in the field. But it can nevertheless serve as an entree to critical discussion, of past and continuing assumptions that are at work herethough I did not make this as explicit as I would nowand to learning how the field has altered in character more recently and is continuing to change.

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