Horizontal Art History and Beyond

Horizontal Art History and Beyond
Title Horizontal Art History and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Agata Jakubowska
Publisher Routledge
Pages 306
Release 2022-07-08
Genre Art
ISBN 1000608549

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This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history—a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015)—that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world. The concept of horizontal art history is one of many ideas on how to conduct nonhierarchical art historical analysis that have been developed in different geopolitical locations since at least the 1970s, parallel to the ongoing process of decolonization. This book is a critical examination of horizontal art history which provokes a discussion on the original concept of horizontal art history and possible methods to extend it. This is an edited volume written by international scholars who acknowledge the importance of the concept, share its basic assumptions and are aware both of its advantages and limitations. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art historiography and postcolonial studies.

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing
Title The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing PDF eBook
Author James Elkins
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 221
Release 2020-12-07
Genre Art
ISBN 311072247X

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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.

Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe

Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe
Title Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe PDF eBook
Author Caterina Preda
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 339
Release 2024-11-29
Genre Art
ISBN 1040222501

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This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining feature of the region. At the same time, chapters employ the concept of “plural geographies” and call for an equal geography, based on solidarity and an equal distribution of capital, which could allow plural geographies to exist and be described. The “multiple geographies” of ECE consider the perspective of local conditions and emphasize how this region was part of successive empires with an important ethnic diversity and changing borders, giving it historical layers and multicultural characteristics. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, political studies, cultural studies, and geography.

Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain

Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain
Title Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 418
Release 2024-10-28
Genre Art
ISBN 9004711287

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This volume, edited by Éva Forgács, with contributions from art historians from across Europe and the Americas, analyzes the artistic initiatives of the short time span between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. In this moment, a new internationalism was anticipated by retrieving pre-war modernism, as well as creating the new era's new artistic lingua franca. The chapters include in-depth case studies that analyze the complex, often interconnected, projects throughout the world—South America and Eastern and Western Europe—that were soon ended by the Cold War.

Beyond Representation

Beyond Representation
Title Beyond Representation PDF eBook
Author Wen Fong
Publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pages 571
Release 1992
Genre Calligraphy, Chinese
ISBN 0300057016

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Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.

Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market

Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market
Title Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market PDF eBook
Author Michaela Watrelot
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 338
Release 2023-12-19
Genre Art
ISBN 1003825400

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Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the book focuses on how these markets influenced each other from the viewpoint of one of the most prominent museum directors of this period, Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929). Given the complexity of the topic, the book is structured into two parts. The first part focuses on Bode’s interactions with the German banker and dedicated art collector based in Paris, Rudolphe Kann (1845–1905). The second part follows the sale of the Kann Collection to the dealer Joseph Duveen and follows on the relationship between Bode, Duveen and the American collectors. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and the art market.

The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro

The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro
Title The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro PDF eBook
Author Susan Audrey Grundy
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 228
Release 2024-10-16
Genre Art
ISBN 1036412768

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This book recovers the lives of four men masked behind one legend. Reinterpreting recently rediscovered documents shows a Tuscan artist Leonardo da Vinci was banished from Florence around 1477, when at the same moment another Leonardo arrived from the East, an Ottoman agent from Genoese Caffa in the Black Sea. This Leonardo was a military engineer, who began writing technical notes backward in a flourishing Italian script. In Florence, around 1500, he met the alchemist and polymath Zoroastro, who collaborated in producing the scientific Notebooks. However, by the mid-sixteenth century, all memory of Zoroastro had been erased, and the two Leonardos had been conflated into one identity. Crucially, an archived document, rediscovered around 2021, proved that the Tuscan painter Leonardo da Vinci died in 1499. This information leads to the recovery of the artist who really painted the Mona Lisa, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.