Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished WorldMartha Langford Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written – some for the first time – while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to reclaim or rethink issues of territory and dispossession, home and exile, contributors to this volume demonstrate that the writing of national art histories is a vital project for intergenerational exchange of knowledge and its visual formations. Essays showcase revealing moments of modern and contemporary art history in Canada, Egypt, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, paying particular attention to the agency of institutions such as archives, art galleries, milestone exhibitions, and artist retreats. Old and emergent art cities, including Cairo, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver, are also examined in light of avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism, and migration. Narratives Unfolding is both a survey of current art historical approaches and their connection to the source: art-making and art experience happening somewhere. |
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2 Playing Out the Differences in Turkish ArtHistorical Narratives | 42 |
Margaret Clarkes Bath Time at the Crèche 1925 Motherhood and the Matter of Whiteness | 62 |
Lyonel Feininger and Gaganendranath Tagore at the Fourteenth Annual Indian Society of Oriental Art Exhibition Kolkata India | 81 |
5 Some Notes on Applying Postcolonial Methodologies to Architectural History Research in IsraelPalestine | 100 |
6 Draw Me a Sheep Contemporary Responses to the Histories of Art Education Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Egypt | 123 |
The Case of the Umm elFahem Gallery in PalestineIsrael | 147 |
Decentralizing the Visual Culture of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland | 167 |
Twinned Visions of Vancouver and Dubai | 249 |
13 Urban Art Histories in Canada | 271 |
14 A Stranger in New York | 288 |
Imagining the Sovereign Subject in Contemporary Exhibition Practices | 305 |
Indigenous Womens Performance Art in Canada | 325 |
Notes | 355 |
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Contributors | 417 |
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