The Routledge companion to decolonizing art history

Abstract

"This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Art history as a discipline and its corollary institutions-the museum, the art market-are not only products of colonial legacies, but active agents in the consolidation of empire and the construction of the West. The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History joins the growing critical discourse around the decolonial through an assessment of how art history may be rethought and mobilized in the service of justice-racial, gender, social, environmental, restorative, and more. This book draws attention to the work of artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields who have been engaging with disrupting master narratives and forging new directions, often within a hostile academy or an indifferent art world. The volume unpacks the assumptions projected onto objects of art and visual culture and the discourse that contains them. It equally addresses the manifold complexities around representation as visual and discursive praxis through a range of epistemologies and metaphors originated outside or against the logic of modernity. This companion is organized into four thematic sections: Being and Doing, Learning and Listening, Sensing and Seeing, and Living and Loving. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, museum studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

SECTION V. Living and Loving -- 34. “She Carried with Her … A Large Bundle of Wearing Apparel Belonging to Herself”: Slave Dress as Resistance in Portraiture and Fugitive Slave Advertisements / Charmaine A. Nelson -- 35. Rina Banerjee’s Decolonial Ecologies / Rebecca M. Brown -- 36. The Teaching Is in the Making: A Relational and Embodied Experience of Anishinaabe Photographs / Celeste Pedri-Spade -- 37. Reflections on a Latinx Decolonial Praxis for Medievalists / Roland Betancourt -- 38. The Waters Surrounding Wallmapu, the Waters Surrounding Life / Seba Calfuqueo -- 39. Dialogical Episodes for Decolonizing (Art) History / Ana María Reyes -- 40. Inner Spaces: The Depth Imagination / Elizabeth DeLoughrey -- 41. Maria Auxiliadora da Silva: Nossa Mãe Maria of Terreiro Life and Faith on Black Grounds / Genevieve Hyacinthe -- 42. Michael Richards: Performance as Ritual and Black-Indigenous Haptic Visuality / Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa -- 43. Bittersweet Histories and Tarnished Gold: Slavery’s Sounds, Sights, and Silences in the Legacy of Dutch Brazil / Anuradha Gobin -- 44. A Personal Take, or Stuck in the Middle/Side and Going Nowhere: An Attempt at Imagining a Methodology for Engaging Colonial Photographic Archives, Histories, and Subjectivities / George Mahashe -- SECTION III. Learning and Listening -- 12. Where’s Decolonization? The Ohketeau Cultural Center, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Arts Institutions / Rhonda Anderson and Larry Spotted Crow Mann, with Jonathan P. Eburne, Stacy Klein, and Carlos Uriona -- 13. Overcoming Art History’s Meta-Narrative / Deborah Hutton -- 14. Pathways to Art History: Pedagogy, Research, and Praxis through a Decolonial Lens / Ananda Cohen-Aponte -- 15. Pedagogies of Place: Listening and Learning in the Margins / Keg de Souza -- 16. The Unbearable Lightness of Adjuncting Art History / Claire Raymond -- 17. Decolonial Cinematic Flows: Histories, Movements, Confluences / Dalida María Benfield -- 18. Re-indigenizing Ancient Mexican Glyphic Codices / Felicia Rhapsody Lopez -- 19. (Not) Performing Pasifika Indigeneity: Destabilizing the Researcher as Decolonizing Method in Art History / Amelia Jones -- 20. Afterlives/Futurelives: Imagining Mermaids and Recalling Ghost Dancing / Roshini Kempadoo -- 21. Decolonizing California Mission Art and Architecture Studies / Yve Chavez -- 22. Radical Pedagogy: Environmental Performances and the Politics of Hope / Jane Chin Davidson -- SECTION VI. Afterword -- 45. Towards a Combative Decolonial Aesthetics / Nelson Maldonado-Torres SECTION II. Being and Doing -- 1. Writing Art History in the Age of Black Lives Matter / Eddie Chambers -- 2. Being an Indigenous Art Historian in the Twenty-First Century: How Can Māori Adornment Reveal New Ways of Thinking about Art, Its Histories, and Futures / Ngarino Ellis -- 3. Reinvention at the Wheel: Shaping New Histories in the Decolonization of Disability / Amanda Cachia -- 4. The Power of Absence: An Interview with Ken Gonzales-Day / Tatiana Flores -- 5. Art in Paradise Found and Lost / LeGrace Benson -- 6. The Maquette-Modèles of Bodys Isek Kingelez: Creole Visions of Decolonial Monuments / Sandrine Colard -- 7. Decolonizing La Revolución: Cuban Artistic Practice in a Liminal Space / María de Lourdes Mariño Fernández -- 8. Museums Are Temples of Whiteness / Sumaya Kassim -- 9. Stepping Out of the Shadow of Imperial Monochrony: A Place-Centric Approach to Decolonizing Japanese Art History / Akiko Walley -- 10. On Failure and the Nation-State: A Decolonial Reading of Alfredo Jaar’s A Logo for America / Florencia San Martín -- 11. Light as a Feather: The Anti-Capitalist Radiance of Decolonial Art History / Wendy M. K. Shaw -- SECTION I. Introduction -- Introduction / Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, and Charlene Villaseñor Black -- SECTION IV. Sensing and Seeing -- 23. Spooky Art History (or, Whatever Happened to the Postcolonial?) / Kajri Jain -- 24. Spatial Abstraction as a Colonizing Tool / Fernando Luiz Lara -- 25 Dishumanizing Art History? / Carolyn Dean -- 26. The Digital Voice as Postcolonial Proxy / Pamela N. Corey -- 27. Reflecting on Whiteness in Recent Contemporary Artwork Exploring Transnational Poland / Alpesh Kantilal Patel -- 28. Racialization, Creolization, and Minor Transnationalism: Black and Indigenous Exchange in Spanish Colonial Visual Culture / Elena FitzPatrick Sifford -- 29. The Imperial Landscape of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Portraiture / Zirwat Chowdhury -- 30. Unseeing Art History: Inka Material Culture / Andrew James Hamilton -- 31. Debility and the Ethics of Proximity: Spatial and Temporal Immediacy in the Work of Candice Lin / Hentyle Yapp -- 32. Decolonizing Crocodiles, Repatriating Birds: Human-Animal Relations in the Indian Landscape / Tamara Sears -- 33. “We Are So Many Bodies, My Friends”: Countervisibility as Resurgent Tactics / Sarita Echavez See --