The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and its Alternatives

by James Elkins

Overview

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which have been incorporated into the text. It covers the principal accounts of Eurocentrism, center and margins, circulations and atlases of art, decolonial theory, incommensurate cultures, the origins and dissemination of the "October" model, problems of access to resources, models of multiple modernisms, and the emergence of English as the de facto lingua franca of art writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110681109
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Edition description:	Klappenbroschur
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Acknowledgments 13

1 The Conditions Under Which Global Art History Is Studied 17

2 Leading Terms: Master Narrative, Western, Central, Peripheral, North Atlantic 39

3 Are Art Criticism, Art Theory, Art Instruction, and the Novel Global Phenomena? 63

4 The Example of Art Since 1900 95

5 State of the Field: Six Current Strategies 113

6 Reasons Why Escape is Not Possible 145

7 Finding Terms and Methods for Art History 153

8 Writing about Modernist Painting Outside Western Europe and North America 165

9 The Most Difficult Problem for Global Art History 193

Envoi: Writing Itself 205

Main Points 209

Index 215