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Art history and the global: deconstructing the latest canonical narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2019

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel*
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Faculté des lettres, Université de Genève, 2 rue de Candolle, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
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Abstract

This article reconsiders the breakthrough of global approaches to art history within a broader historical, sociological, and institutional context. It also puts into perspective the interdisciplinary openness of global-oriented approaches, and their impact in the discipline. Aiming at historicizing them up to the present, it questions the notion that the origins of global thinking in art history are to be found in the 1980s with the so-called postcolonial turn among art historians, which has become the canonical narrative. Postcolonial awareness emerged very late among art historians, only in the early 2000s. This contrasted, however, with a long-standing interest in non-Western artefacts and visual cultures among certain art historians, who were also interested in global comparisons and transdisciplinary approaches. These scholars borrowed from other fields such as history, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology, but their work was gradually put aside in the process of building art history as a discipline. This article will try to explain why this happened, and will also argue that the globalization of the art market played a greater role than postcolonial theory in encouraging art historians to adopt a globalized approach.

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decolonizationglobal art historyglobal turninterdisciplinary practicestransnational art historyworld art studies
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Journal of Global History , Volume 14 , Special Issue 3: Historicizing the global: an interdisciplinary perspective , November 2019 , pp. 413 - 435
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103 In 1990, Rasheed Araeen organized a counter-exhibition at the South Bank Centre in London, The other story: Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain, to present contemporary artists of mixed cultural origins, based in the UK.

104 Such as Third Text, E-flux (https://www.e-flux.com/, founded in New York in 1998, with an online journal in 2008), or Hyperallergic (https://hyperallergic.com/, founded in Brooklyn in 2009).

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108 For instance, Bak (basis voor actuele Kunst), founded in Utrecht in 2000, https://www.bakonline.org; the transatlantic network Red conceptualismos del sur, founded in 2007, https://redcsur.net/en/; the Former West project, launched in 2008 in Utrecht, http://www.formerwest.org/; the Artl@s project, founded in Paris by the author in 2009, http://www.artlas.huma-num.fr/en/; and Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s)/(MoDe(s), established in Barcelona in 2015, https://modernidadesdescentralizadas.com/ (all consulted 2 July 2019).

109 ARTMargins, http://www.artmargins.com (consulted 2 July 2019).

110 Artl@s Bulletin, http://www.artlas.ens.fr.en (consulted 2 July 2019).

111 See http://www.internationaleonline.org (consulted 2 July 2019).

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119 An issue raised at the symposium ‘Médiation passé, présent et futur: récits historiques et art du XXe et XXIe siècles – dialogues avec les expériences des pays du Sud’, Kinshasa (DRC), March 2016, reviewed in Emi Koide, ‘Œuvre d’art comme récit historique (Rapport des discussions du groupe de travail)’, Artl@s Bulletin, 7, 1, 2018, pp. 85–92, https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol7/iss1/11/ (consulted 23 September 2018).

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