Internationalizing the History of American Art Book

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Introduction Barbara Groseclose Groseclose, Barbara Jochen Wierich Wierich, Jochen 1

I American Art and Art History

1 Newness, Flatness, and Other Myths: Looking for National Identity in European (and a Few British) Histories of American Art Rebecca Zurier Zurier, Rebecca 19

2 Mutual Seduction: German Art History and American Art Jochen Wierich Wierich, Jochen 41

3 American Art Pre-1940 and the Problem of Art History's Object Andrew Hemingway Hemingway, Andrew 61

4 Beyond the Borders: Nineteenth-Century British and American Art in Comparative Perspective David Peters Corbett Corbett, David Peters 81

II Display and Exposition

5 The Absolute Past: Your Version or Ours? Canadian Constructions of Pre-1945 American Art History Marylin McKay McKay, Marylin 95

6 An Artistic Tradition in the Making: Looking at American Art in French Nineteenth-Century Criticism Veerle Thielemans Thielemans, Veerle 109

7 Ceci n'est pas un musee: Distance and Resistance in Franco-American Cultural Displays Derrick R. Cartwright Cartwright, Derrick R. 119

8 Transatlantic Complexities: A Traveling Exhibition About Traveling Artists Sophie Levy Levy, Sophie 141

III Post-1945 Investments

9 Menage atrois: Paris, New York, Sao Paulo. and the Love of Modern Art Serge Guilbaut Guilbaut, Serge 159

10 The "Triumph" of American Art? Pop Art in the Postwar World Christin J. Mamiya Mamiya, Christin J. 179

Notes 195

Index 231