Overview

The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead, it draws on a theory of transculturation to explore key moments of an art history that can no longer be approached through a facile globalism. How can art historical analysis theorize relationships of connectivity that have characterized cultures and regions across distances? How can it meaningfully handle issues of commensurability or its absence among cultures? By shifting the focus of enquiry to South Asia, the five meditations that make up this book seek to translate intellectual insights of experiences beyond Euro–America into globally intelligible analyses.

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'As the book addresses the many challenges raised by its introductory question, making the familiar unfamiliar is a significant achievement of Can Art History Be Made Global? - one that reveals the global connections that have been embedded all along in the history of art.' (Devika Singh in: Texte zur Kunst, 2024/6) *** 'This book is a major accomplishment, rich in its theorizing, thinking, and execution, and erudite in both its scope and depth; it is agile and eloquent in its language. The text is dense and requires one's full attention, but with a rewarding outcome. It stimulates thinking otherwise, a compass to move anew through the field of the global, art history as a global project, with numerous challenges to get started oneself.' (Kitty Zijlmans in: Kunstchronik, 2024/12) *** 'It is with these reservations in mind that I recommend reading the second to fifth chapters, which nonetheless deploy a highly intelligent conceptual relativism, a sharp awareness of transculturation at work in art practices, and a keen sensitivity of the contexts and polysemy of artefacts, particularly with regard to works and practices developed in Southeast Asia.' (Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel in: Art History, 2024/11)

'As the book addresses the many challenges raised by its introductory question, making the familiar unfamiliar is a significant achievement of Can Art History Be Made Global? - one that reveals the global connections that have been embedded all along in the history of art.' (Devika Singh in: Texte zur Kunst, 2024/6)

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Monica Juneja is Professor of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. Her areas of research span the fields of European and South Asian studies. They include practices of visual representation, the disciplinary trajectories of art history in South Asia, gender and political iconography in modern France, and the interface between Christianisation, religious identities, and cultural practices in early modern South Asia.

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