Wer schreibt die Kunstgeschichte? Kritik, Kunstwissenschaft, Markt und Museum

In his famous essay, Inside the White Cube. Ideologies of the Gallery Space (1976), the artist and art critic Brian O'Doherty conceived an unusual model of art history: the house of modernity. With his house as counter-model, O'Doherty proposes an antithesis to the most popular model of art history: the family tree. Both concepts can be sharply separated. While O'Doherty's house is an artifact that is made by men, the family tree grows on its own, without any external intervention. The article examines the positions and roles that are occupied by criticism, art history, market and museum in each of these models.