The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. It assesses how art history can be rethought and mobilized in the service of justice, drawing attention to the work of artists, art historians, and scholars who have been engaging with disrupting master narratives and forging new directions. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Being and Doing, Learning and Listening, Sensing and Seeing, and Living and Loving.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 610 pages
Publication date: 27 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive companion is the first global text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Art history, as a discipline, and its related institutions, the museum and the art market, are not only products of colonial legacies but active agents in the consolidation of empire and the construction of the West. The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History joins the growing critical discourse around decoloniality by assessing how art history can be rethought and mobilized in the service of justice, including racial, gender, social, environmental, restorative, and more. This book draws attention to the work of artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields who have been engaging with disrupting master narratives and forging new directions, often within hostile academies or indifferent art worlds. The volume unpacks the assumptions projected onto objects of art and visual culture and the discourse that contains them. It equally addresses the manifold complexities around representation as visual and discursive praxis through a range of epistemologies and metaphors originated outside or against the logic of modernity.

This companion is organized into four thematic sections: Being and Doing, Learning and Listening, Sensing and Seeing, and Living and Loving. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, museum studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and womens, gender, and sexuality studies.

Weight: 1320g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367714819