Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn
Joshua I. Cohen, Foad Torshizi, Vazira Zamindar
When taken as a conglomerate, the postcolonial, the global, and the decolonial might signal a coordinated “decolonizing” action—one of breaking with the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and...
Color Charts
Bani Abidi
In the days before the arrival of the internet, Western art history education in Pakistan was mostly disseminated through black and white photocopies of original...
Counting Quality, Seeing Patterns
Ijlal Muzaffar
What does it mean to see Third World “development” as a problem of untapped creativity? This paper argues that quick celebrations of ingenuity across the...
This Past Must Address Its Future: Uses of African Noncontemporaneity in Contemporary Art from the French Borderscape
Jennifer Bajorek
In the last two decades, key sites in the European borderscape—the “jungle” of Calais, the dense patchwork of settlements around Melilla and Ceuta, myriad migrant...
What Does Art History Have to Say About a Lebanese Sasquatch? The Body of Decolonial Struggle in Amanda Boulos’s Art
Tammer S. El-Sheikh
This paper focuses on several works by the Palestinian-Canadian painter Amanda Boulos that communicate the shared desire of both Palestinians in the diaspora and Indigenous...
Southern Lights: Octavio Paz’s “Glimpses of India” and the Art of Relation
Sonal Khullar
This article analyzes the articulation of south-south relation in Octavio Paz's In Light of India (1995) and A Tale of Two Gardens: Poems...
Introduction to “Art, Signs, and Cultures” (1977)
Joshua I. Cohen
This document, translated from the original French, is an edited transcript of a conversation between the Senegalese painter Iba Ndiaye, the French art historian Jean...
Art, Signs, and Cultures: Iba Ndiaye and Jean Laude in Conversation with Roger Pillaudin
Iba Ndiaye, Jean Laude, Joshua I. Cohen
This document, translated from the original French, is an edited transcript of a conversation between the Senegalese painter Iba Ndiaye, the French art historian Jean...
Ch’ixi Epistemology and The Potosí Principle in the 21st Century
Alexander Alberro
The author focuses on the project exhibition, “The Potosí Principle,” curated by Alice Creischer, Max Hinderer, and Andreas Siekmann Initially installed in Madrid in 2010...
On the Aspirations of Architecture and Design in 20th-Century South Asia
Vishal Khandelwal
This review compares The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985” (2022) to Farhan Karim's <span...
Erratum: The Persistence of Primitivism and The Debt Collectors
Editors
Elizabeth Harney's “The Persistence of Primitivism and the Debt Collectors” (ARTM 11:3), p. 105-125 (https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_r_00327) contains an error. Joshua I. Cohen's The “Black...
