• Features

Renegade Art Historian Aby Warburg Challenged the Discipline’s Elitism with Photography

The German-Jewish art historian (1866–1929) is known for his "Bilderatlas Mnemosyne" project, a compendium of photographs of artworks from across time and cultures categorized and mounted on cloth…

• By
  Lucy Ives
• Jun 8, 2020 8:40 am

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Photos: Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas

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  Art in America
• Jun 5, 2020 9:18 am

• Features

Two Books about Art History Examine a Discipline in Crisis

These are clearly pessimistic historiographies, imagining the discipline to be permanently cut off from its past heights or, alternately, damned from its very outset.

• By
  Rachel Wetzler
• Jan 14, 2020 11:24 am

• News

Alex Nemerov Named Chair of Stanford Art & Art History Department

Stanford announced today that art historian Alexander Nemerov has been named the new chair of its Art & Art History Department. His tenure begins this fall. Nemerov has been a part…

• By
  John Chiaverina
• Jun 25, 2015 12:20 pm

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9 Awesome New Art Books for Kids

A summer reading list for budding artists and art historians

• By
  Stephanie Strasnick
• Jun 12, 2014 7:00 am