2020_Reading Seminar: Decolonizing Art History


 

Date: 14.02.2020

This WONA seminar was arranged as a reading group seminar in which the WONA members discussed particular questions raised in Catherine Grant’s and Dorothy Price’s article ‘Decolonizing Art History’ (Grant, Catherine, and Dorothy Price. 2020. 'Decolonizing Art History', Art History, 43: 8-66.):


What is the historical specificity of current calls to decolonize art history? How are they different from previous challenges to the discipline (such as postcolonialism, feminism, queer studies, Marxism)?

What is your understanding of decolonizing art history now?What does a decolonized art history look like? How should it be written/practised?

How might the decolonization of art history impact upon your own area of research/ practice? What would be produced from it? Might anything have to be jettisoned?

Where should decolonization in relation to art history happen? What strategies might different spaces for decolonization demand?