"Our project is not to add to art history as we know it, but to change it.” The establishment of the Association of Art Historians and the emergence of feminist interventions, 1974-1990

Abstract

This article charts the establishment of the UK Association of Art Historians and its publishing organ Art History in the period 1974 to 1990. It investigates the synergetic relationship between that professional organisation and emergent feminist perspectives on art history, considering how both forces restructured disciplinary boundaries in the context of rapidly expanding higher education sector.

Keywords

• feminism
• publishing
• professional organisations
• British art history
• discipline
• counterpublics
• new art history