Global and Local Art Histories

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84718-252-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten

There are now many books on postcolonial theory, yet relatively few of them gather together sustained, dynamic and insightful analyses of visuality, art and art history outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes and concerns. Global and Local Art Histories explores what it means to have a global and local experience of art. The 15 essays published here suggest ways of interpreting works of art from a broad range of cultural perspectives, many of them transcultural.

Here are voices contesting concepts of history and culture, evaluating and exploring global and local identities in a changing world. Because of the variety of different approaches and cultural perspectives that Global and Local Art Histories brings together, the book presents a unique opportunity to question what we mean by that dangerously globalising category: “the work of art” and “art history” exploring “g-local” approaches that challenge such falsely universalising rubrics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeffery, Celina

Minissale, Gregory

Über Autor(innen)

Celina Jeffery is an art historian specialising in sculpture, new media, and cross-cultural interactions, with a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex. She is the Senior Curator, Savannah College of Art and Design and co-founder and editor of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture.

Gregory Minissale completed his doctoral research in Islamic art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has taught approaches to non-Western art history in the US and the UK, and is author of the groundbreaking, Images of Thought: Visuality in Islamic India, 1550-1750.