Thomas Crow

• New York University

The annals of art history can readily be reduced to a catalogue of names, but salient examples of group effort are never hard to find. In London, the example of the Independent Group (IG) need only be adduced, but its immediate successors are less obvious. Between the dissolution of the IG in 1956 and the founding of Art & Language (A&L) a decade l...

The exhibitions and events under the umbrella of Pacific Standard Time took place from October 2011 to June 2012 in museums, galleries, and alternative art spaces all over Southern California. The initiative was a decade in the making, and its scale was unprecedented. Seeking to establish histories of art in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980, PST h...

"Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History", hailed as one of the most engrossing and stimulating art history texts to come along for years by "The Times Higher Education Supplement", embraces many aspects of the so-called new art history attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism, popular and eli...

With this volume, the author contributes an analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it "intelligible". He aims to relocate the discussion of theory and method in art history away from models borrowed from other disciplines. Sketching the history of trends in art history - from description and biogra...