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Discussion 3_Contemporary Art History

Discussion 3_Contemporary Art History

Q What are your thoughts on the way the traditional study of art history focuses only on European and American artists and styles in a linear timeline of one movement leading to another while ignoring the art that was going on throughout the rest of the world? This is an issue that is being discussed among educators today. How can this be remedied? How would art history be taught in America if it covered the art of the world instead of focusing on European and American art?

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It is obvious that the European and American art are the one that is more discussed than any other art forms. In fact, I don’t even know that there is any other art form that exists in the world. Whether we have studied in schools or read in newspapers or journals, we have always studied about European and American artworks and artists especially of the Renaissance period and Enlightenment period. I believe that the only reason for this is that at that period it were these two nations that saw industrial revolution. Modernism was developing in these two nations with changing ideas and perceptions along with changing governments.