Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all—as much as we may want to consider it otherwise—is being made history as it h

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"A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American art"--Provided by pu

One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductiv