Books in the Rethinking Art's Histories series

In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity. -- .

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels. -- .

A new approach to art history from an inter-disciplinary and global perspective with a focus on the event and its repercussions. -- .

Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world. -- .

Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists. -- .

A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture. -- .

A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s. -- .

Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science. -- .

Investigates the Brazilian image world in the first four decades of the twentieth century. -- .