Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Methods, Debates and Paradigms -- Art History, Aesthetics and Art Criticism -- The Idea of the Canon and Canon Formation in Art History -- European Heritage: Unity in Diversity? -- Contemporary Art and the Concept of Art History: Influence, Dependency and Challenge -- Formalism and the History of Style -- Visual Culture and Visual Studies -- Theories of the Image in France: Between Art History and Visual Anthropology -- Bildwissenschaft: Theories of the Image in German-language Scholarship -- Computerization, Digitization and the Internet -- Technical Art History: The Synergy of Art, Conservation and Science -- Dimensions of Dialogue: Art History and the Discourse of Economics -- Sociologies of Art: With and against Art History -- Museums and Museologies -- Art History in a Global Frame: World Art Studies -- The Construction of National Art Histories and the 'New' Europe -- Part Two The Geography of the Discipline -- Cultures of Interruptions. Art History in the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- In Search of Synthesis: Art History in Belgium -- Art History in Bulgaria: Institutional Frameworks, Research Directions and Individual Scholars -- Art History in the Czech and Slovak Republics: Institutional Frameworks, Topics and Loyalties -- Art History in France: A Conflict of Traditions -- Art History in German-Speaking Countries: Austria, Germany and Switzerland -- Art History and Visual Studies in Great Britain and Ireland -- Born of a 'Peripheral' Modernism: Art History in Greece and Cyprus -- Art History in Italy: Connoisseurship, Academic Scholarship and the Protection of Cultural Heritage -- Art History in the Netherlands: The Past and Present of the Discipline -- Art History in the Nordic Countries.

A Marginalised Tradition? Polish Art History -- In Search of National Traditions: Art History in Romania -- Art History in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia -- Art History in Spain: A Generational History -- Art History and the Founding of the Modern Turkish State -- Bibliography -- Index.