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Article: Toward a Geography of Art.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- September 22, 2004
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Toward a Geography of Art. By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xiv+490 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-13312-5.
By tradition, the study of art in North American institutions has most commonly been grounded in the discipline of history (i.e. art history). Although geographers have a healthy interest in culture, they seem to devote less time to the study of art per se. Toward a Geography of Art is an original contribution that expands our understanding of a concept already common in German-speaking countries. Kunstgeographie (the geography of art) emerged in the early ...