Art and its global histories

Art and its global histories
Author: Diana Newall
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-07-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1526119935


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The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn'. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from the usual attention paid to Orientalism and French art in this period. The sources and debates on this topic have never before been brought together in a satisfactory way and this book will represent a particularly significant and valuable contribution for postgraduate and undergraduate art history teaching.

Art, Commerce and Colonialism 1600-1800

Art, Commerce and Colonialism 1600-1800
Author: Emma Barker
Publisher: Art and its Global Histories
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781526122926


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Art, Commerce and Colonialism 1600-1800 examines European art, architecture and design of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the light of the continent's growing engagement with the rest of the world. In a series of case studies spanning the globe from Asia to the Americas, it shows how the expansion of intercontinental trade and the proliferation of colonial ventures gave rise to new and diverse forms of visual and material culture. Among the examples discussed are ornate altarpieces in the cathedrals of colonial Latin America, Dutch still-life paintings of exotic luxury imports, English interior decoration in the Chinoiserie style and the architecture of plantation houses in North America and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of recent scholarship, the book proposes a new history of European art 1600-1800, which should appeal to undergraduate students as well as to a general readership

European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550

European Art and the Wider World 1350–1550
Author: Kathleen Christian
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 152612291X


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Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how visual culture expresses the increasing contact between Europe and the rest of the world in this era.

Circulations in the Global History of Art

Circulations in the Global History of Art
Author: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317166159


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The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. The editors’ introduction provides an account of the historical background to this approach to global art history, stresses the inseparable bond of theory and practice, and suggests a revaluation of materialist historicism as an underlying premise. Individual contributions to the book provide an overview of current reflection and research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of methods and approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and presenting individual case studies. An 'Afterword' by James Elkins gives a critique of the present project. The book thus deliberately leaves discussion open, inviting future responses to the large questions it poses.

Abstract Art

Abstract Art
Author: Pepe Karmel
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500239584


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A leading authority on the subject presents a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, in this richly illustrated and persuasive history. In his fresh take on abstract art, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the canonical terrain of abstract art, the author demonstrates how artists from around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural, and spiritual experience. Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture, and man-made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, to Hilma af Klint, and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Karmel has forged a new history of this key art movement.

Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Author: Helen Gardner
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781439085790


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The 13TH ENHANCED EDITION of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY takes this brilliant bestseller to new heights in addressing the challenges of today's classroom. Over 300 additional new images are integrated into the text, and appear online as full size digital images with discussions written by the author. These bonus images are complimented complemented by groundbreaking media support for students including video study tools and a robust eBook.

On the Philosophy of Central European Art

On the Philosophy of Central European Art
Author: Max Ryynänen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1793634181


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This book is an introduction to the history of the concept and the institution of (fine) art, from its ancient Southern European roots to the establishment of the modern system of the arts in eighteenth century Central Europe. It highlights the way the concept and institution of (fine) art, through colonialism and diaspora, conquered the world. Ryynänen presents globally competing frameworks from India to Japan but also describes how the art system debased local European artistic cultures (by women, members of the working class, etc) and how art with the capital A appropriated not just non-Western but also Western alternatives to art (popular culture). The book discusses alternative art forms such as sport, kitsch, and rap music as pockets of resistance and resources for future concepts of art. Ultimately, the book introduces nobrow as an alternative to high and low, a new concept that sheds light on the democratic potentials of the field of art and invites reader to rethink the nature of art.

The History of Art: A Global View: 1300 to the Present

The History of Art: A Global View: 1300 to the Present
Author: Jean Robertson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780500844229


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A more global, flexible way to teach art history

Is Art History Global?

Is Art History Global?
Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135867666


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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.