SMArt Talks: From Global Art History to Global Aesthetics

We cordially invite you to the last lecture of the spring semester from the SMArt Talks series, organised by the Centre for Modern Art & Theory (Department of Art History FA MU). The lecture by Professor of Philosophy Bence Nanay will be dedicated to the issue of the scope of global art history and questions of where it is necessary to move its boundaries.

Global art historians urge us to take non-European art more seriously. Art history has long been dominated by European, or more widely, Western art. Global art history aims to give equal (or almost equal) attention to Japanese art, Chinese art, Indian art, Korean art, Aboriginal art, and so on. Global art history is an important and timely project. But I will argue that it does not go far enough. If we want to stop privileging European art over any other kind of art, we need a much more radical shift. We need to examine what makes art history global and question the assumptions about the methodology of global art history. We need not only global art history, but also global aesthetics.