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Inside the discipline, outside the paradigm: keeping track of the New Art History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Lyn Korenic
Lyn Korenic*
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University of California, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
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Abstract

From the point of view of a student of art history in the 1980s re-entering the discipline as a graduate student, the ‘new’ art history represents a dramatically wider field of enquiry involving new methodologies, although ‘old’ art history is still pursued by some academics. The ‘new’ art history employs an interdisciplinary approach which embraces materials far beyond ‘traditional’ art historical sources, and so information has to be sought outside the art library and via the Internet. Librarians responsible for supporting art history studies need to keep in touch with teachers, with curriculum developments, and with the discipline itself; it may also be helpful to get involved in staff/student use of the Web, and to collaborate with other Humanities librarians. The way in which the ‘new’ art history branches out in all directions parallels the hypertext linkages of the Web and the complexity of our globally-connected world.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 1997 , pp. 12 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1997

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