Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting i
From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-
Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of ind
Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how
The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow th