Can art history be made global? : meditations from the periphery / Monica Juneja.

"The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead, it draws on a theory of transculturation...

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Main Author: Juneja, Monica (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Can art history be made global?
  • Chapter one. The world in a grain of sand : a genealogy of world art studies
  • Chapter two. Making and seeing images : tracking the routes of vision in early modern Eurasia
  • Chapter three. Traversing scale(s) : transcultural modernism with and beyond the nation
  • Chapter four. Beyond backwater arcadias : globalised locality and contemporary art practice
  • Chapter five. When art embraces the planet : the contemporary exhibition form and the challenge of connected histories
  • Postcript. The hunter and the squirrel : art history from the global to the planetary.