Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity

Art and Discontent ended with an appeal for non-Eurocentric approaches to cultural history. This volume brilliantly elaborates that idea, beginning with the author's famous controversy with the Museum of Modern Art over the 1984 exhibition, Primitivism in 20th Century Art. That essay inaugurated a host of multicultural issues which dominated much art discourse through the 1990s and seems likely to remain in the foreground for some years to come. The concept of a global art history was progr...