Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: a n d p o s t h u m a n i s m 1 Does Global Art History Exist?Kitty Zijlmans begins her short but condensed programmatic article with the following words: "Clearly, art history is not global"2.After making this categorical statement, the author presents over a dozen points of her art-historical research programme which could be the response to the processes taking place in the world, including the global dimension of art culture.I will not summarise it here but I would like to note that, partially, it has a "level-headed" character.Her primary postulate to make it an "intercultural" project is compatible with the mainstream literature which has been increasingly published in the recent years.Some of her more interesting 1 The present article is an extended version of the paper presented at the Methodological Seminar organised by the Art Historians Association in Nieborów on October 25-27, 2012.I would like to thank Prof. Maria Poprzęcka for the consent to this publication which precedes releasing the volume of materials from the Seminar.Also, I would like to thank participants of a seminar I conducted in the 2012/2013 winter semester entitled Global Art History at the Warsaw University within the "modern university" project, for stimulating discussions.
Source: Teksty Drugie
Author: Piotr Piotrowski
Language: Croatian
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2597056906