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Swedish Art Historiography : Institutionalization, Identity, and Practice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johansson, Britt-Inger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Swedish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.) ill
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Nordic Academic Press, Sweden, 2023.
- Summary:
- Constant change and expansion have been the hallmarks of Swedish art history as an academic discipline since the first university chairs were established a hundred years ago. It has crossfertilized with related disciplines and benefited from the parallel emergence of art museums and other institutions in Sweden. Swedish art history should thus be seen as the result of people and institutions tapping into one another's activities, united by their dedication to art and visual culture as an object of study and experience.In this edited volume - the first Swedish survey for an international readership - the authors dwell on their own understanding of the early formation of the discipline and examine its current identity and potential progress. The contributors elaborate on art history research and teaching at Swedish universities, but also at related institutions such as the Swedish Institute in Rome, Nationalmuseum, and Skissernas Museum - Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art in Lund.The book's authors come from a variety of research fields, institutions, and generations and provide a multifaceted picture of the past and the future of Swedish art history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front Left
- Front Right
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Swedish art historiography -institutionalization, identity, and practice: An introduction (Britt-Inger Johansson &
- Ludwig Qvarnström)
- The field of historiography
- The first art history departments
- The institutions of art history
- Academic art history
- The art of naming
- Education reforms
- Teaching and researching art history
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Part 1: Identity, Borders and Border Crossing
- Chapter 1: Is Finland Swedish? The role of the Swedish language, Swedishness, and Swedish history in Finnish art historiography (Fred Andersson)
- What is 'Finland'?
- Finnishness and Swedishness in modern Finland
- Early academic art history in Finland
- Two internationalists and one regionalist
- Nationalist art history takes precedence
- The case of Johannes Öhquist
- Åbo Akademi and a Galician outsider
- Two key appointments and their consequences
- Continuity in Finnish art historiography
- Cultural belonging and international relevance
- Chapter 2: Medieval material: Navigating between art history and archaeology at Lund University (Cecilia Hildeman Sjölin)
- Foundations of the museum
- The early twentieth century
- The 1920s to the early 1960s
- Rethinking medieval archaeology
- Medieval studies after the 1960s
- Historical archaeology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: The 'Rome Course' in art history at the Swedish Institute in Rome (Lars Berggren)
- The Swedish Institute in Rome
- Torgil Magnuson and the early stages
- The education on offer
- A multifaceted academic environment
- The Rome Course and Swedish art history
- The future of the course
- Chapter 4: Ragnar Josephson and the Skissernas Museum- Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Ludwig Qvarnström).
- From university collection to regional art museum
- The revival of the Skåne Art Museum
- The archive
- The birth of a work of art
- Skissernas Museum
- In a national and international context
- Skissernas Museum today
- Chapter 5: The 1970s-the transformation of a discipline: An Uppsala perspective (Hedvig Brander Jonsson)
- Radical or romanticized? Myths of an era
- 1965-1969, recruiting strategies and career prospects
- The AB2 experiment and competing courses
- Visual arts versus architecture
- ABC programmes and visual communication
- The legacy of the critique of ideology
- A new profession- postdoc research fellows
- Two high-profile professors
- Chapter 6: A complex relationship: Architectural history and the architects (Claes Caldenby &
- Anders Dahlgren)
- Architects as historians and architect-historians
- Chalmers University of Technology
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Chalmers under Elias Cornell
- 'Interpretation and guidance'
- Historians as critics
- 'Undisciplined' historian-architects
- Chapter 7: Art history and built environment conservation at the University of Gothenburg, 1978-2020 (Henrik Ranby &
- Ola Wetterberg)
- Demolition, art history, and urban ethnology
- Conceptualization and beginnings
- Art history traditions
- A break with tradition
- Expansion and breakthrough
- Academic research in conservation
- Built environment conservation as a discipline
- University departments
- The future of heritage conservation and art history
- Chapter 8: Art history and Linköping University's interdisciplinary experiment (Gary Svensson)
- Repositioning visual studies
- Interdisciplinary scholarship
- An exclusive approach
- The Tema experience as a resource
- Undergraduate art history at Linköping
- Notes.
- Chapter 9: Establishing art history in the twenty-first century: Karlstad and Växjö (Margareta Wallin Wictorin &
- Hans T. Sternudd)
- Karlstad
- Växjö
- Conclusions and discussion
- Chapter 10: Exhibiting the History of Swedish Architecture: Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm (Christina Pech)
- Exhibition as critique
- Towards a consolidated history of modern architecture
- A permanent history
- A processed archive
- Educating the public
- Making a Swedish architecture museum
- Museum politics and the politics of the museum
- History is not the archive
- Art history or architectural history?
- Chapter 11: Object-centred research at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm: The realities of art history (Solfrid Söderlind)
- The Nationalmuseum until 1990
- Ambitions and consequences of the 1992 anniversary
- Redesigning the framework
- Expansion through coordination from 1997
- The organization after 2007
- A research infrastructure
- Part 2: The Practice of Art history
- Chapter 12: Studies of early modern portraiture (Charlotta Krispinsson)
- Most paintings were portraits
- Terra incognita
- The first German-language scholarship
- The Swedish Portrait Archive
- A methodological paradigm
- Chapter 13: Osvald Sirén: From Renaissance Italy to the Far East (Johan Eriksson)
- Chapter 14: Swedish castles, palaces, and mansions: A brief survey of the antiquarian tradition (Britt-Inger Johansson)
- Magnificent buildings, visualized
- An early research institute
- Academic antiquarianism
- Popular antiquarian topographical accounts
- The rise of the travelogue
- Travel guidebooks and architectural guides
- Guidebooks and academia
- Chapter 15: Classic ground: The Royal Palace of Stockholm as a field of art-historical research in the twentieth century (Rebecka Millhagen Adelswärd)
- Ideal classicism with national qualities
- The grand narrative
- Tessin the eclectic
- The triumph of the eighteenth century
- Ideological criticism
- The Royal Palace set the tone
- Chapter 16: Art between scholarly theory and museum practice: Personal reflections (Hans-Olof Boström)
- Chapter 17: Historicizing digital art in Sweden (Anna Orrghen)
- The emergence of digital art
- Pioneer stories
- Mapping and categorizing digital art
- Digital art as the object of study
- Digital art in art history
- Digital art historicized
- Chapter 18: Scenography: From a marginalized object of study to a vital theoretical concept (Astrid von Rosen)
- A lay-professional understanding of scenography
- The 1967 change in terminology
- Visual dramaturgy, expanded scenography
- A holistic, multisensory scenography theory
- Swedish scenographic history in action
- Towards a multisensory approach to scenography
- Chapter 19: The history of mainstreaming gender in art history in Sweden (Linda Fagerström &
- Johanna Rosenqvist)
- Teaching gender, a background
- The state of university curricula in 2020
- Implementing a critical gender perspective
- Chapter 20: Have art historians forgotten about presence in art? (Max Liljefors)
- Art history, a study of culture?
- Theorizing presence
- Writing presence
- Why presence now?
- About the authors
- End Left
- End Right.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 91-89361-19-9
- OCLC:
- 1584467615
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