In 'The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review', Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art. Over the course of eleven chapters and a roundtable, the contributors assess the discourse’s goal of transcending Eurocentric boundaries, reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of current terms, methods, theories, and concepts. Although it is clear that the global perspective has exposed the artistic and cultural pluralism of early modern Europe, it is found that more work needs to be done at the epistemological level of art history as a whole.
Author(s): Daniel Savoy (ed.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 274. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 23
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 354
City: Leiden
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction / Daniel Savoy 1
Part 1. Global Genealogies
1. A Global Florence and its Blind Spots / Sean Roberts 17
2. Otto Kurz’s Global Vision / Jessica Keating 45
Part 2. Beyond Eurocentrism
3. Decolonizing the Global Renaissance: A View from the Andes / Ananda Cohen-Aponte 67
4. Ranges of Response: Asian Appropriation of European Art and Culture / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann 95
Part 3. A Borderless Renaissance
5. Reconsidering the World-system: The Agency and Material Geography of Gold / Lauren Jacobi 131
6. Linking the Mediterranean: The Construction of Trading Networks in 14th and 15th-century Italy / Emanuele Lugli 158
7. Cosmopolitan Renaissance: Prints in the Age of Exchange / Stephanie Leitch 186
8. The World Seen from Venice: Representing the Americas in Grand-scale Wall Maps / Elizabeth Horodowich 218
Part 4. Instituting the Global
9. Global Renaissance Art: Classroom, Academy, Museum, Canon / Lia Markey 257
10. Zones of Indifference / Marie Neil Wolff 289
11. The 'Global Turn' in Art History: Why, When, and How Does It Matter? / Claire Farago 299
Epilogue: Roundtable 314
Index 337
