1st Edition
Writing Borderless Histories of Art Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis
Introduction: Taking Responsibility in the Age of Capital Intermezzo I: Time as a Healer 1. Defining an Ecological Approach: On the History of Human Exceptionalism 2. How the European Discourse on Art Shaped Accounts of Human Exceptionalism Intermezzo II: What Is “National Style"? 3. Hauntologies of Art: "Race," Climate, and Genius 4. A Transcultural Approach to Histories of Vision Intermezzo III: Deep History: Disentangling “Race” and Genetic Science 5. Borderless Thinking on our Animal Planet: On the Future of the Past
Biography
Claire Farago is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder, currently living in Los Angeles. She has written extensively on processes of transculturation, the epistemological foundations of art history, art theory, and museums. Her anthology, Reframing the Renaissance (1995) was a groundbreaking contribution to transcultural studies in art history.
“Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an extraordinary book, as bold as it is erudite. Claire Farago brings to light formative connections that have always existed between art making, climate theory, and transcultural relationships, but which have been overlooked by scholarship in art history. Eloquently written and incisively argued, this is a book of vital contemporary relevance that will transform the field. It deserves to be read by every art historian.”
- Monica Juneja, Senior Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany and Distinguished Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, India
"Eurocentrism has a cost far beyond the obvious power asymmetries we see damaging the world today. Claire Farago’s erudite and readable book makes that point forcefully in relation to climate transformation and art discourse. She powerfully combines her deep knowledge of European ancient to early modern thought with an expansive view of contemporary global society and its brutal extractive methods, tracing the origins of the human exceptionalism in European thought to the present. Demonstrating the interrelations among globalization, colonization, disciplinary formations, and the traffic in art objects, she offers refreshing counter arguments that are collective, relational and “borderless.” A tour-de-force!"
- Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design and Professor of Art and Design, Art History and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
