{"title":"From the culture wars to a civil war: institutes of art-historical research in the United States","authors":"Elizabeth C. Mansfield","doi":"10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5958","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The history of institutes for advanced research in the visual arts in the United States is a recent one, dependent as much on the happy accidents of Fortune as of fortune. Great fortunes made in banking and the oil business, especially, but also fortunes generated by a successful chain of discount stores and a sewing machine empire provided the funds needed to found all of the major art history research centers in the United States: the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study ...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Perspective Magazine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5958","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The history of institutes for advanced research in the visual arts in the United States is a recent one, dependent as much on the happy accidents of Fortune as of fortune. Great fortunes made in banking and the oil business, especially, but also fortunes generated by a successful chain of discount stores and a sewing machine empire provided the funds needed to found all of the major art history research centers in the United States: the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study ...