Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is no...(展开全部)

Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is no...(展开全部)

Taking a radically new approach to the history of abstract painting, Pepe Karmel applies a scholarly yet fresh vision to reconsider the history of abstraction from a global perspective and to demonstrate that abstraction is embedded in the real world. Moving beyond the orthodox canonical terrain of abstract art, he surveys artists from across the globe, examining their work fro...(展开全部)

A child's introduction to art history through the centuries and across the globe A Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from the Paleolithic period to the present day, voyaging to thirty locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they discover the amazing ne...(展开全部)

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gend...(展开全部)

This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global will stage an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants will range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, ...(展开全部)

This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global will stage an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants will range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, ...(展开全部)

Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.

In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic ...(展开全部)

Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.