two great tastes that taste great together

I'm talking about art and historiography, of course, the chocolate and peanut butter of the mind.  I was delighted to learn yesterday, via the Art History Newsletter, that the University of Glasgow has begun to publish The Journal of Art Historiography.  The first issue gets its Kunstgeschichte on with a focus on Viennese and German thought.  Warburg!  Riegl!  Novotny!  Just thinking about it makes me feel like . . . well, like I just ate a lot of chocolate and peanut butter and need to take a long nap.  More seriously, it's all very fascinating, if a bit heavy going at times.  The editors wisely put this interview (warning: pdf) with the late Michael Baxandall at the top, easing the reader in with a little lighter fare.  It's an engaging read, with citations that would provide a good reading list for an intro art history seminar on their own.  At times it's perhaps a bit too light or predictable (Baxandall liked Richard Wollheim, and admired Francis Haskell, though thought the latter went too far--more detail, please?), but one can't expect too much from a transcribed conversation, tantalizing though it may be.  And while I'd prefer that the journal published its articles on pages of their own and not as pdfs, I'm happy to see that they're up at all, and so I'll stop nitpicking and just be thankful for the free ice cream.  Or chocolate and peanut butter, as the case may be.