Art history has been transformed over the past 20 years by the arrival of fresh questions about the creative dynamics of cultural difference in the visual arts.
Examining interactions among non-western artists and artists from culturally diverse backgrounds alongside western art movements that have engaged with different cultures, Annotating Art's Histories breaks through the barriers of separate areas of study to build up an innovative understanding of key topics in 20th-century art.
Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, the series includes four volumes. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts.
Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts.
The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation.
Titles now available - follow the right-hand links for more information
Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
Discrepant Abstraction
Cosmopolitan Modernisms
Praise for the Annotating Art's Histories series
'Read any single one of these essays and you are given meaningful insight into the political landscape of contemporary art. Each essay takes up Pop as a site of contestation - this is what makes the volume so interesting and informative' - Frieze
'Rich with examples of the subtle and not-so-subtle shifts in meaning when Pop's strategies occurred outside its breeding grounds' - Modern Painters
'Cosmopolitan Modernisms is animated by the reappearances of forgotten conjunctions and overlooked characters that should command whole volumes in their own right' - Frieze
'[Discrepant Abstraction's] most propulsive essays fluently intertwine social history and formal analysis' - Art Review
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