Canons and values: ancient to modern

Abstract

"In this volume, twelve scholars rethink the way art history canons--including those from outside Europe--are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Thomas Gaehtgens -- Introduction: canons in world perspective-definitions, deformations, and discourses / Larry Silver -- Canons: systems of proportions in ancient Egypt, India, and Greece / Adolf H. Borbein -- Object(s)-value(s)-canon(s) / John K. Papadopoulos -- Body canons in South America / Gary Urton -- A temple without a name: Deccan architecture and the canon for sacred Indian buildings / Subhashini Kaligotla -- The 500 faces of Teotihuacan: masks and the formation of Mesoamerican canons / Matthew H. Robb -- "One flower from each garden": contradiction and collaboration in the canon of Mughal painters / Yael Rice -- Canons seen and unseen in colonial Mexico / Kevin Terraciano -- The enduring burin in early nineteenth-century Paris / Louis Marchesano -- Making the canon visible: art historical book series in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Friederike Kitschen -- The naked fetish: Carl Einstein and the western canon of African art / Uwe Fleckner -- Forging the myth of Brazilian modernism / Rafael Cardoso -- Jewish art and modernity / Larry Silver -- Contributors -- Illustration credits -- Index.