« Je pense que les peuples ont pris conscience du fait qu’ils avaient des intérêts communs et qu’il y avait des intérêts planétaires qui sont liés à l’existence de la terre, des intérêts que l’on pourrait appeler cosmologiques, dans la mesure où ils concernent le monde dans son ensemble ».
Pierre Bourdieu (1992)


mardi 16 juin 2015

Circulations in the Global History of Art, Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

 
Circulations in the Global History of Art 
Edited by 
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
Ashgate
Studies in Art Historiography
2015

Présentation de l'éditeur
The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. 
The editors’ introduction provides an account of the historical background to this approach to global art history, stresses the inseparable bond of theory and practice, and suggests a revaluation of materialist historicism as an underlying premise. Individual contributions to the book provide an overview of current reflection and research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of methods and approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and presenting individual case studies. An 'Afterword' by James Elkins gives a critique of the present project. The book thus deliberately leaves discussion open, inviting future responses to the large questions it poses.
About the Editor: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, USA. Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University, USA. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is Associate Professor of Art History, École normale supérieure, France.

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