Interventions: Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garde Art from the Periphery
The author discusses the difficulties of including the wider, multicultural history of art in the discipline, pointing out not only a disconnect between Western and non-Western art, but a dividing line between the cannon of classical art history and Modernism, as well as a lack of focus on periphera...
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| Published in: | The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 531 - 548 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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01-12-2008
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The author discusses the difficulties of including the wider, multicultural history of art in the discipline, pointing out not only a disconnect between Western and non-Western art, but a dividing line between the cannon of classical art history and Modernism, as well as a lack of focus on peripheral artists and movements in texts and study. |
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| Bibliography: | content type line 23 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 |
| ISSN: | 0004-3079 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00043079.2008.10786408 |