Feminist critiques ĭespite or perhaps because of the influence of History of Art, it came under increased scrutiny by art historians, who sought a more inclusive story of Western art. Janson's signature contribution to the discipline of art history, specifically to the teaching of art history, is his survey text entitled simply History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has since become the standard by which current art history textbooks are measured. He also wrote books on art for young people, some in collaboration with his wife. Over his career, Janson consulted on the Time–Life Library of Art was president of the College Art Association, editor of the Art Bulletin, and founding member and President of the Renaissance Society of America. In his later years he was concerned with East–West dialogue in the arts.
He wrote about Renaissance art and nineteenth-century sculpture, and authored two prize-winning books, Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1952) and Sculpture of Donatello (1957). He was recognized with an honorary degree in 1981, and died on a train between Zurich and Milan in 1982 at the age of 68. Also in 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Janson left in 1948 to join the faculty of New York University, where he developed the undergraduate arts department and taught at the graduate Institute of Fine Arts. Janson sold 120 artworks, retained 80, and acquired 40 works by European modernists through the Kende Galleries: Paul Klee, Juan Gris, Theo van Doesburg. Janson's plan to sell popular canvases such as Frederic Remington's A Dash for the Timber at the New York galleries of the Kende family drew comment from the local paper, wondering why St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University from 1941 until 1948, where he also took charge of a renewal of the University Art Gallery collection (now known as the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum). In 1941 he married Dora Jane Heineberg (1916–2002), an art history student at Radcliffe College who later collaborated with him as co-author, and he became a citizen in 1943. He taught at the Worcester Art Museum (1936–38) and the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History (1938–41) while pursuing his degree. In 1935, at the suggestion of Panofsky, who had emigrated to the United States, Alfred Barr sponsored Janson as an immigrant, and he completed a PhD at Harvard University in 1942 (his dissertation was on Michelozzo). After the October Revolution, the family moved to Finland and then Hamburg, where Janson attended the Wilhelms Gymnasium (graduated 1932).Īfter his German Abitur, Janson studied at the University of Munich and then at the art history program at the University of Hamburg, where he was a student of Erwin Panofsky. Petersburg in 1913 to Friedrich Janson (1875–1927) and Helene Porsch (Janson) (1879–1974), a Lutheran family of Baltic German stock. Janson, Personalized: No, Book Series: History of Art, Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults, Signed: No, Genre: Art, Series: 2cd Edition, Era: 1970s, ISBN: 9780810910522, Publication Year: 1977, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Publisher: Abrams, Inc.Janson was born in St. See Photos for yourself!, Book Title: History of Art, Ex Libris: No, Narrative Type: Nonfiction, Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan, Topic: History / General, Custom Bundle: No, Number of Pages: 767 Pages, Inscribed: No, Type: Illustrated Book, Features: Revised, Vintage: No, Author: Anthony F. Condition: Very Good, Condition: Clean pages.
Janson 1977 HB in very good condition! Clean pages. Item: 265020046847 History of Art 2nd Edition H.W.