The Possibility of a World Art History

Abstract

With our focus on twenty-first-century art history, we asked John Clark, Professor of Asian Art History, University of Sydney, to convene an email Q-and-A on the topic of world art history. The possibility of such a history has been thrown up in the wake of the seeming decline of the Euro-American art history that dominated twentieth-century thinking about art. For an overview of the world-art-history idea, readers are referred to James Elkins's book Is ART HISTORY GLOBAL? Clark invited four respondents: Parul Dave Mukherjee, Professor of the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Omuka Toshiharu, Professor and Vice-Provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo; Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, Quezon City; and Woo Jung-ah of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.