Rethinking Non-Eurocentrism in Art History and Architecture History

Dear Colleagues,

The objective of this Special Issue is to explore art and architectural historiographies that intend to place Eurocentric narratives under critical scrutiny, shaping models that manage to challenge the Western canon, and labels such as “other” or colonial. It aims to investigate the impact of the dissolution of colonialist models on art and architecture history. It places particular emphasis on historiographical approaches that question Zeitgeist theories, which had served to legitimize modernism. Over the last four and a half decades in the fields of art history and architecture history, there have been, in many cases, numerous endeavors that aimed incorporate postcolonialist criticism into art and architecture. However, these efforts often failed to go beyond the peril of “provincializing” Europe. By depicting Europe and the West as a homogeneous power of domination over the rest of the world, postcolonial criticism turns Europe into the blind spot of its own discourse. This Special Issue welcomes articles that analyze art history and architecture history approaches that challenge dichotomies, such as Western/non-Western or Eurocentric/non-Eurocentric. At the core of the reflections that are developed in this issue is the relationship between art and architecture history and structures of power and dominant ideological agendas in the societies under study.

Dr. Marianna Charitonidou
Guest Editor

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• non-Eurocentric historiographies
• art theory
• architecture theory
• art history
• art theory
• postcolonial criticism