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Writing borderless histories of art

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"Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature. Race, Indigeneity, and the environmental crisis are the burning issues of today. A transcultural approach calls for abandoning structures of domination that are built into the academic disciplines, regardless of the scale or extent of interpretation. Drawing upon writings from a wide range of fields, Claire Farago argues that Art History can play a role in advancing the public's interconnectedness with the planetary life-support system that so urgently needs to be restored. Studying the discourse on art at the intersection of global capitalism, environmental degradation, and human subjection over four centuries, Writing Borderless Histories of Art advocates ontologies that do not distinguish between the sentience of humans and other animals and go beyond the dualistic metaphysics of the nature/culture divide. This book offers an ecological approach to the history of planetary culture that does not set humans apart from the rest of the natural world. It presents a multi-layered approach which will appeal to art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, musicologists, scientists, and philosophers"-- Provided by publisher.

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Intermezzo I: time as a healer -- Defining an ecological approach: on the history of human exceptionalism -- How the European discourse on art shaped accounts of human exceptionalism -- Intermezzo II: what is "national style?" -- Hauntologies of art: "race," climate, and genius -- A transcultural approach to histories of vision -- Intermezzo III: deep history: disentangling "race" and genetic science -- Borderless thinking on our animal planet: on the future of the past.

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Farago, Claire J. Writing borderless histories of art

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:35.329068+00:00
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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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