The first systematic study of Kant's reception of and influence on visual art and art history.
1. Introduction: bo(a)rders; 2. Place and time: Kant in Rome c. 1800; 3. The genealogy of authority: Kant and art's history in the twentieth century; 4. The sublime is now (again): French theory/international art; 5. Kant's skull: portraits and the image of philosophy, c. 1790-1990.