Questions on “world art history” [PDF]
The choice of this theme for debate has been stimulated by recent discussions of the globalization of art history, and the increasing emphasis placed in the discipline on the notion of “world art history,” perhaps best exemplified by the books of James Elkins and David Summers: James Elkins, Is Art History Global?
Zainab Bahrani +4 more
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Concepts for art history in a changing world [PDF]
In an article written in 2002 by the art historian T J Clark he confronted his own past with a self-recognition that he had failed to “get right” certain works of art that were compellingly “contemporaneous” in his earlier years . This was not a mere personal reflection but something of a commentary on certain trajectories of art historical work.
Walden, Jenny
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‘Surrealism and Australia: towards a world history of Surrealism’ [PDF]
In this paper, the authors write a brief history of Surrealism in relation to Australia. However, as against the usual national histories of Australian art, in which Surrealism is understood as arriving late to the country, or the later post-colonial ...
Rex Butler, A.D.S. Donaldson
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Endosmosis: bio-geographical sources of a World Art History [PDF]
The establishment of non-European art historical scholarship at the University of Vienna narrates the influence of turn of the twentieth century German academic exchanges between natural sciences and the humanities.
Zehra Tonbul
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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]
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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Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures.
Karen S. Rubinson, Katheryn M. Linduff
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ICOMOS Charters on cultural tourism throughout the 50 years of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention
This paper outlines the contribution of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism (ICTC) to tourism management throughout the history of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Natural and Cultural Heritage ...
Margaret Gowen +3 more
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Who Is an Artist? Identity, Individualism, and the Neoliberalism of the Art Complex
The fantasized artist-as-origin began as the quintessential figure manifesting Enlightenment European concepts of individual autonomy and sovereign subjectivity—and thus of identity and meaning as these come to define and situate human expression as well
Amelia G. Jones
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Continuity and Change: Socio-Spatial Practices in Bamberg's World Heritage Urban Horticulture
The German city of Bamberg offers lessons in how continuity and change interact within the context of the inner-urban land use of commercial horticulture, thereby informing sustainable urban transformations in historic cities.
Heike Oevermann +4 more
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The article explores the period of reviving the art of calligraphy and handwritten book art in the Tatar culture, which falls on the end of the XIX century and is associated with the names of A. Makhmudov and Sh. Tagirov.
Firdaus G. Vagapova +1 more
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