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

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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.

Catherine Dossin, The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s. A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds

Catherine Dossin
The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s
A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds
Ashgate
2015

Présentation de l'éditeur

In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. Dossin reconstructs the concrete factors that led to the shift of international attention from Paris to New York in the 1950s, and documents how ‘peripheries’ such as Italy, Belgium, and West Germany exerted a decisive influence on this displacement of power. As the US economy sank into recession in the 1970s, however, American artists and dealers became increasingly dependent on the support of Western Europeans, and cities like Cologne and Turin emerged as major commercial and artistic hubs - a development that enabled European artists to return to the forefront of the international art scene in the 1980s. Dossin analyses in detail these changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds - a story that spans two continents, forty years, and hundreds of actors. Her transnational and interdisciplinary study provides an original and welcome supplement to more traditional formal and national readings of the period. 

Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History at Purdue University, USA.