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The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing : North Atlantic Art History and its Alternatives / James Elkins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110681109
  • 9783110722475
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N7480 .E435 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110722475

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)