Aug. 31, 2023 鈥� Art History Professor Irina D. Costache co-edited the just-released anthology 鈥淗istorical Narratives of Global Modern Art.鈥�
鈥淭his new narrative contests the limited boundaries of the modern art cannon and discloses the novel global paradigms of a multilayered, rich, open and diverse untold story,鈥� Costache said. 鈥淚t reveals unprecedented connections, new developments and unknown dialogues across countries and continents and exposes ignored artists, marginalized topics and overlooked works of art.鈥�
Costache selected the topic, co-wrote the introduction and selected, reviewed and edited all the essays.
鈥淭he book chapters disclose diverse formal expressions, innovative conceptual approaches and various media used by international artists and forcefully acknowledges the connections between art, historical circumstances, political environments and social issues such as gender, race and social justice,鈥� Costache said.
Chapters include the following:
- 鈥淭he Global Contexts of Modern African Art鈥�
- 鈥淐hinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China鈥�
- 鈥淧rimitive Surfaces: Elena Izcue, Peruvian Indigenism and the Racial Politics of Modernist Ornament鈥�
- 鈥淢odern Islamicate Painting, 1940鈥�1970鈥�
- 鈥淧icturing the Dead: Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Turn-of-the-Century Mexican Photography鈥�
- 鈥渀On or About 1910,鈥� London鈥檚 New Bond Street, and the Global Art Market鈥�
For more information, visit the or contact Costache at costache@csuci.edu.