The end of diversity in art historical writing : north atlantic art history and its alternatives / James Elkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elkins, James, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. The Conditions Under Which Global Art History Is Studied

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

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

4 The Example of Art Since 1900

5 State of the Field: Six Current Strategies

6 Reasons Why Escape is Not Possible

7 Finding Terms and Methods for Art History

8 Writing About Modernist Painting Outside Western Europe and North America

9 The Most Difficult Problem for Global Art History

Envoi: Writing Itself

Main Points

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-072247-X

OCLC:

1226678449