Full Description
The Routledge Companion to Global Art Histories explores contemporary global art histories, theories and practices through diverse local, national and transnational perspectives which challenge traditional narratives and embrace cultural plurality.
This Companion features twenty original essays from leading international scholars, organised into four thematic sections: methodologies and pedagogies, identity and agency, place and ecologies, memory and geopolitics. Each section includes an introduction to guide readers through key concepts. The book provides practical frameworks for understanding how power, location and cultural difference shape art histories, enhanced with case studies from the Caribbean, India, China, the Netherlands, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania and other regions, demonstrating how local perspectives reshape global art history narratives.
This volume will be an indispensable reference for scholars and advanced students of art history, visual culture, museum studies and postcolonial studies. It is particularly useful for teachers developing decolonised curricula and scholars studying contemporary art, global modernisms, cultural geography and transnational art practices. Museum professionals, curators and practitioners engaged with questions of representation, identity and institutional critique will also find this Companion useful for understanding and implementing global perspectives within their work.
Contents
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Global Art Histories Section I: Considering Global Art Histories and Pedagogies Introduction to Section I 1. Decolonialising the Art Curriculum in the Netherlands: Local Drivers, Global Outlook 2. Within and Without Portraiture: The European Tradition Reconsidered 3. Global Art History and the Global Cold War 4. Transdiffering the Global? The Art of Kent Monkman 5. Writing, Teaching and Using Art History in the Postcolonial Caribbean Section II: Developing Voice, Identity and Agency Introduction to Section II 6. Photography's Universal Language and the Trials of the Foreign 7. Francis Klingender: Agency, Surveillance and 'the Genre of Silence' 8. Re/Defining the Homelands: Engaging with Melvin Edwards's Experiences in Africa 9. Charting Infrastructures within Art History: The Visual Cultures of the Keskidee Centre and Ten.8 10. Material Feminisms: Indian Women's Art History 11. Chinese Contemporary Art: New Developments in Dialogue Section III: Re-imagining Place, Ecologies and Location Introduction to Section III 12. Re-Plotting the Plantationocene through Artistic Practice 13. A City on Strike: Thinking from Sudhir Patwardhan's Bombay 14. Art Histories at Sea: An Exploratory Voyage 15. Immersive Ecologies. The Severn Estuary: A Research Case Study 16. Multispecies Assemblies and Curatorial Solidarities at the Venice Biennale Section IV: Indexing Memory, Trauma and Geopolitics Introduction to Section IV 17. Tracing Early Nordic Colonialism: The Story of An Unknown Painting 18. New Readings of Sculpture from Greece: Theodoros (Kounellis and Takis) 19. Hauntological Art and the Afterlife of Failed Futures 20. Reclamation, Refusal and Memory: Perceptions of the Contemporary Beirut Art Scene Coda: Against the Comfort of Critique
