by Jon Lackman | 5 July 2006 | Journals
As Brian Sholis notes in his excellent “In Search of the Miraculous” blog, “The Spring 2006 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, contains a strong, readable essay on the development of art history in America by Thomas Crow.” It begins at the beginning and “runs up to Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, doubles back for an extended meditation on Meyer Schapiro, then rumbles forward to Linda Nochlin and Robert Herbert’s (separate) ‘building of a systematic iconography for Parisian modernism,’ Annette Michelson and Rosalind Krauss, the splendors of early-‘80s ‘social history of art,’ and so on, concluding by positing some disconcerting assertions, raising very relevant questions, and, in the end, holding out hope for ‘a new synthesis at a higher level.’”
