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July 15, 2008
James Elkins, ed. Is Art History Global? New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 472 pp. Paper $27.95 (9780415977852)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.65

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Is Art History Global? should be read by anyone interested in the history of art as a discipline, and especially anyone interested in its future. The question it asks is of fundamental importance. The problems are clearly outlined and much useful data is presented already in the first part, which includes, besides James Elkins’s introductory materials, three other “starting points” offered by Andrea Giunta (Argentina), Friedrich Teja Bach (Austria), and Ladislav Kesner (Czech Republic). There...