Thinking through Denmark: Connected Art Histories

Hatt, Michael; Thøfner, Margit

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“…40 Conceptualizing art in terms of circulating oceans rather than bordered nations has the potential to challenge the national-field framework, as observed by Michael Hatt and Margit Thøfner in 'Thinking through Denmark: Connected Art Histories'. 41 It is tempting to consider Britain as especially susceptible to this kind of restructuring: the country is centred on a group of islands and its history has been bound up with sea voyages. With this in mind a suggestive phrase from the scholarship of Ranjana Khanna could be adapted to urge art historians to 'think [British] art from the sea and to think of the sea as a means of understanding [British] art'.…”

Section: British Art and The Globalmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Centre is Nowhere’: British Art and the Global

Hart¹,

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2022

Art History

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What does it mean for art history to conjoin the terms ‘British art’ and ‘the global’? What is carried by the liminal space of the conjuncture? And what is forsaken? This special issue seeks to think through the pressures placed on British art since the mid‐nineteenth century as a national category of enquiry in the wake of unstable definitions of post‐colonialism, neo‐colonialism, globalization and the decolonial. Drawing on recent scholarly debates about the role and definitions of British art, the co‐authors explore some of the tensions inherent in trying to operate within a nationally and geographically defined field, the artificial borders of which are porous, malleable, and subject to regular political and cultural change. Acknowledging the shortcomings of both the global and the national as frameworks for art‐historical enquiry, we suggest different ways of steering a path between the two.

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Section: British Art and The Globalmentioning

confidence: 99%