Irina D. Costache is Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. The books she published include The Art of Understanding Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), translated into Chinese in 2015, Venezia, Italia/Venice, California (Sestante Edizioni, 2015), co-authored, and the anthology Academics, Artists and Museums (Routledge, 2018), co-editor. Her current research examines issues related to modern art, digital media, and museums. She is also working on a digital project on futurist art theory and another on nature and culture in the Anthropocene. Dr. Costache has also curated numerous exhibitions including recently The Long Struggle for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Icons, Moments, and Voices Selections from the Santi Visalli Collection at CSUCI, (2022–2023). Dr. Costache was elected to and served on the Board of Directors of College Art Association. She also served as Vice-president and later President of the Art Historians of Southern California.Clare Kunny, Educator and Arts Administrator, is an art historian and museum professional with extensive experience working in and with art museums. Clare is founding director of Art Muse Los Angeles. She leads a team of educators, artists, and art historians to develop educational programs and offer professionally guided tours of art museums and galleries in greater Los Angeles and beyond. From 2014 to 2022, Art Muse Los Angeles has worked with Paris Photo LA and Frieze LA, providing private tours of the art fair for corporate sponsors. Art Muse also works with LA Opera and the Hammer Museum on special projects to unite the fine and performing arts. In 2003, Clare joined The J. Paul Getty Museum's Education Department as Manager of Public Education and Teaching. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Clare served as Associate Director of General Programs for 17 years in the Department of Education at The Art Institute of Chicago.

• Introduction. Modern Art: A Global Story Prequel: Helen Gardner’s Art Through the Ages Part I: 1870-1900 1. Impressionism and Globalization 2. Picturing the Dead 3. Art and Revival in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 4. The Marbelous Movement 5. 'On or About 1910' 6. Modernism, Transnational Netowrks and Pan-Africanism Part II: 1920-1940 7. Berlin, Bauhaus, Bucharest 8. Chinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China 9. Primitive Surfaces 10. The Black Legend of Mexican Painting 11. Neo-Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in the Portugese Estado Novo Part III: 1940-1970 12. Inter-Asian cultural dialogues 13. Thomas Farkas and Mid-century Brazilian Photographic Networks 14. Modern Islamicate Painting 15. Two Pioneering Women Bring Abstraction to the Andes 16. TheGlobal Contexts pf Modern African Art 17. A Full Embrace of the Global in Modern Art: Museum Exhibitions and Art History Conclusion