Writing Borderless Histories of Art

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. Its multilayered approach will appeal to art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, musicologists, scientists, and philosophers.

Claire Farago is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder, currently living in Los Angeles. She has written extensively on processes of transculturation, the epistemological foundations of art history, art theory, and museums. Her anthology, Reframing the Renaissance (1995) was a groundbreaking contribution to transcultural studies in art history.

Introduction: Taking Responsibility in the Age of Capital Intermezzo I: Time as a Healer 1. Defining an Ecological Approach: On the History of Human Exceptionalism 2. How the European Discourse on Art Shaped Accounts of Human Exceptionalism Intermezzo II: What Is "National Style"? 3. Hauntologies of Art: "Race," Climate, and Genius 4. A Transcultural Approach to Histories of Vision Intermezzo III: Deep History: Disentangling "Race" and Genetic Science 5. Borderless Thinking on our Animal Planet: On the Future of the Past