Provocations for a Different Art History

The subject matter of art history has been expanding, and its political narratives have become more self-reflective, but it is still dependent on a relatively small set of words descended from Greek and Latin, whose meanings were established in the Enlightenment, for example space, art, picture, beauty, time, form, and history. This book is intended to question and expand those concepts. It includes 14 collections of non-European words that can be used to rethink the way art history encounters objects, suggesting how art history might become genuinely dialectic, open, and less conceptually European. Resulting from the collaboration of specialists working in 13 different countries and familiar with 14 non-European languages Provocations for a Different Art History will diversify art history and make it more inclusive.

• Result of a six-year international collaboration with 14 specialists in the art of non-European cultures
• Radical, inclusive, multilingual revision of art history
• A new combination of linguistics, art history, anthropology, and philosophy