Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art

Introduction. Modern Art: A Global Story

Irina Costache and Clare Kunny

Prequel. Helen Gardner and Art Through the Ages, 1948: A World Panorama of Art 6

Barbara Jaffee

Part I: 1870-1920
1. Impressionism and Globalization
André Dombrowski
2. Picturing the Dead: Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Turn of the Century Mexican Photography

Elisa C. Mandell
3. Art and Revival in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Kayla Rose
4. The ‘Marbelous’ Movement: 1871-1922 Victorian England
Alexander Kusztyk
5. 'On or About 1910’, London’s New Bond Street and the Global Art Market
Anne Helmreich
6. Modernism, Transnational Networks and Pan-Africanism and Early Twentieth Century African American art

Catherine Bernard
Part II: 1920-1940
7. BERLIN, BAUHAUS, BUCHAREST: RE-MAKING MODERNISM IN THE GLOBAL PERIPHERIES

Alexandra Chiriac
8. Chinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China: The Cases of Lu Xun and Liu Bannong
Bruno Lessard
9. Primitive Surfaces: Elena Izcue, Peruvian Indigenism, and the Racial Politics of Modernist Ornament
Grace Kuipers
10. The Black Legend of Mexican Painting
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez
11. Neo-Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in the Portuguese Estado Novo (1926-1974): The Genealogy of a Marginalized Concept
Ana Lourenço Pinto
Part III: 1940-1970
12. Inter-Asian cultural dialogues
Tanya Singh
13. Thomaz Farkas and Mid-century Brazilian Photographic Networks
Danielle Stewart
14. Modern Islamicate Painting, 1940-1970
Alex Dika Seggerman
15. Two Pioneering Women Bring Abstraction to the Andes
Michele Greet
16. The Global Contexts of Modern African Art: Negotiating Blackness, Modern Art and African Identities in Paris
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

Biography

Irina D. Costache is Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. The books she published include The Art of Understanding Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), translated into Chinese in 2015, Venezia, Italia/Venice, California (Sestante Edizioni, 2015), co-authored, and the anthology Academics, Artists and Museums (Routledge, 2018), co-editor. Her current research examines issues related to modern art, digital media, and museums. She is also working on a digital project on futurist art theory and another on nature and culture in the Anthropocene. Dr. Costache has also curated numerous exhibitions including recently The Long Struggle for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Icons, Moments, and Voices Selections from the Santi Visalli Collection at CSUCI, (2022–2023). Dr. Costache was elected to and served on the Board of Directors of College Art Association. She also served as Vice-president and later President of the Art Historians of Southern California.

Clare Kunny, Educator and Arts Administrator, is an art historian and museum professional with extensive experience working in and with art museums. Clare is founding director of Art Muse Los Angeles. She leads a team of educators, artists, and art historians to develop educational programs and offer professionally guided tours of art museums and galleries in greater Los Angeles and beyond. From 2014 to 2022, Art Muse Los Angeles has worked with Paris Photo LA and Frieze LA, providing private tours of the art fair for corporate sponsors. Art Muse also works with LA Opera and the Hammer Museum on special projects to unite the fine and performing arts. In 2003, Clare joined The J. Paul Getty Museum's Education Department as Manager of Public Education and Teaching. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Clare served as Associate Director of General Programs for 17 years in the Department of Education at The Art Institute of Chicago.

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