Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made (1) (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

By: Claire Farago and Susan Lowish and Jens Baumgarten

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Synopsis: This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew. It represents a rethinking on a global stage of some of the most fundamental assumptions in what were once arguably helpful methodological tools in art history. As chapters in this book demonstrate, the category of artisanal knowledge opens up the history of culture, allowing discourse to be freed from a narrative of cultural development without excluding Art with a capital A from consideration. Our shared inquiry, approached through many different case studies involving many kinds of data and contexts, focuses attention on methodological aspects. Each chapter provides a sustained meditation on artisanal knowledge that includes intellectual, social, economic, and political factors without relying on universals, monolithic categories, hierarchies of genre and medium, or the use of binaries, least of all the global/local binary. As different as they are from one another, all the chapters in this book ask about various connectivities among peoples, ideas, things. The book will be of interest to artists, critics, curators, and scholars working in art history, museum studies, history, material culture studies, performance studies, eco-criticism, Latin American studies, colonial studies, religious studies, anthropology, and Indigenous studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 248 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040426012
Related ISBNs:: 9781032594491, 9781040426005, 9781003456681
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/11/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Claire Farago, Susan Lowish, and Jens Baumgarten
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Claire Farago
Edited by:: Susan Lowish
Edited by:: Jens Baumgarten