"Kernbauer’s book is an important intervention into (artistic) historiography and global art history methodology. ...Kernbauer’s conceptual history of art’s relation to history, her theoretical reflections on history, history writing and time offer invaluable new insights into the historiographical concepts and challenges that are discussed in contemporary artistic historiographies."
--Journal of Art Historiography
Introduction 1. Art as Historiography 2. Ready for History: The Explosion of the Documentary 3. The Crux of Authorship 4. Archiving, Recording 5. Showing, Telling, Picturing 6. Performing 7. Counterfactual History, Parafiction, and the Critical Ends of Utopia 8. Testing Truth: Tribunal, Script, Trial 9. Anachronism and Anachrony 10. No End of History: Art and History in the Anthropocene
Eva Kernbauer is Chair of Art History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.