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.
The Introduction and Coda of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
| ISBN: | 9781032594491 |
| Publication date: | 13th August 2025 |
| Author: | Claire J Farago, Susan Lowish, Jens Baumgarten |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
History of art Ethnic studies Historiography Colonialism and imperialism National liberation and independence Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Sociology Globalization Political economy The arts: general topics Politics and government |
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.
The Introduction and Coda of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies features in the following genres: History of art, Ethnic studies, Historiography, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Sociology, Globalization, Political economy, The arts: general topics, Politics and government
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies is available in Hardback
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies was written by Claire J Farago, Susan Lowish, Jens Baumgarten and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies has 246 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series
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