Is Art History Global?

ISBN-13: 9780415977845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 472 str.

James Elkins

Opis

This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, Ding Ning, Cuautemoc Medina, Oliver Debroise, Renato Gonzalez Mello, and other scholars.

Recenzje

"Is Art History Global? should be read by anyone interested in the history of art as a discipline, and especially by anyone interested in its future. The question is asks is of fundamental importance." --caa.reviews

Spis treści

Section 1. Introductory Essay  Section  2. Starting Points Notes on Art History in Latin America Andrea Giunta  The Modality of Spatial Categories Friedrich Teja Bach  Section 3. The Art Seminar Section  Section 4. Assessments  Section 5. Afterwords Globalizing Art History Shelly Errington

O autorze

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is, and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.