Global turns in US art history [PDF]
Perspective, 2015 Although globalization feels recent, questions directed at nationalism from a more worldly perspective were already being posed during the Great War. In 1916, for example, US legal scholar Randolph Bourne wrote an essay entitled “Trans-National America,” in which he advocated for a cosmopolitan mixture of cultures rather than the “melting pot” that had
Caroline A. Jones, Steven Nelson
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Whose global art (history)?: Ancient art as global art [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2016 Discourse on global art or art history arguably dominates the field of art history today in terms of curriculum and research. This discourse cuts across time and space, impacting all art historical specializations, from prehistoric to contemporary, and ...
Cynthia Colburn
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Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network?
Hart, 2021 La idea de zona de contacto constituye un concepto productivo para pensar la configuración del mundo contemporáneo como un espacio de dimensiones heterogéneas y diversas que se encuentran en un continuo proceso de interacción y de producción mutua.
Nuria Rodriguez Ortega
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‘The history of architectural history. The genesis and development of a scientific discipline between national perspectives and European models’. Report on the international Symposium of the Technische Universität Dresden at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome, in cooperation with the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences & Lettres Univerity [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 For the first time, the symposium on the History of Architectural History, organised by Henrik Karge (Dresden) and Sabine Frommel (Paris) at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome, analysed architectural history as a European phenomenon.
Henrik Karge +2 more
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‘Towards a truly global art history’. Review of: 20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary by Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram, London: Thames and Hudson 2022 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 The present review of 20th Century Indian Art focuses on the book’s contribution to debates around ‘global art history’ and ‘world art studies’. What methodological breakthroughs can be gained from the comparative study of regions outside Europe and the ...
Rafael Cardoso
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‘Art that explores history: Reconceptualizing contemporary art’s historicity in the global framework’. Review of: Eva Kernbauer, Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990, New York City: Routledge, 2022. [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 Eva Kernbauer’s book Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990 argues that contemporary artistic historiographies can potentially help us to reconceptualize historiography and to rethink contemporary art’s historicity.
Birgit Hopfener
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Coloniality at Global Scales: Reframing the Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Image
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2022 This study advocates for the necessity of writing more lateral art histories across cultures and geographies in the global 19th century by placing two history painters, the Estonian Johann Köler (1826–1899) and the Peruvian Luis Montero (1826–1869),
Bart Pushaw
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The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011 The analysis of hidden power constellations in any translation process between cultures–in this special case between Asia and Europe–is an emerging feature in (trans-)cultural studies.
Michael Falser
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‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 Terry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few
Elizabeth Mansfield
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Global art history: a view from the North
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2015 “Southern” perspectives on unequal development are undeniably much needed. Yet, Southern perspectives on art and culture sometimes construct a homogenising image of the West.
Anne Ring Petersen
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