| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. Toward a Geography of Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 490. $25.00.

Within the anglophone academy, geography and art history are rarely thought of as cognate disciplines, although since the 1960s conceptual, site-specific, and performance art practices have stimulated shared artistic and geographical interest in questions of place, documentation, and mapping. Such art work is now mature enough to attract the attention of art historians, including Miwon Kwon and Irid Rogoff. For their part, geographers, having extended their conceptions of space beyond the narrowly cartographic, interrogate the range of cognition and meanings attached to environments, places, and landscapes. They also explore the historical role of visual images (especially the map) in shaping material spaces. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's book opens with a discussion of geography's "cultural turn" and offers an informed reading of some of the discipline's key contemporary thinkers, albeit more social theorists than humanists. The "geographical" turn in late twentieth-century art practice lies outside the author's concern. His subject matter is more conventional and canonical, and his theoretical interest is in an older and unfamiliar (at least for non-German scholars) tradition of Kunstgeographie. The book seeks to recuperate this somewhat tainted intellectual project for contemporary scholarship. The result is a fascinating, challenging, but frustrating work that hopes to lay the foundation for further study about relationships between art and place, but that one fears may register the brilliant investigation of an intellectual cul-de-sac.

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