Monica Blackmun Visonà – författare

Written by a team of authors whose expertise spans the globe, The History of Art: A Global View is the first major art history survey text built from a truly global perspective. Its chronological organization shows students how art developed simultaneously around the world, encouraging them to draw cross-cultural connections. The book’s brief, modular chapter structure allows for maximum flexibility when designing your course, as chapters can be taught in any order or skipped altogether. A new Norton Illumine Ebook helps students engage more deeply with key concepts throughout the chapter, with interactives that help students practice their visual analysis skills.

Written by a team of authors whose expertise spans the globe, The History of Art: A Global View is the first major art history survey text built from a truly global perspective. Its chronological organization shows students how art developed simultaneously around the world, encouraging them to draw cross-cultural connections. The book’s brief, modular chapter structure allows for maximum flexibility when designing your course, as chapters can be taught in any order or skipped altogether. A new Norton Illumine Ebook helps students engage more deeply with key concepts throughout the chapter, with interactives that help students practice their visual analysis skills.

"The History of Art: A Global View answers the urgent need for a more global, inclusive way to teach the history of the world’s art. Led by Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, eleven specialists have cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative. The resulting survey represents every global region as an important part of an integrated, chronological history that emphasizes cross-cultural connections, contrasts and comparisons.The first major art history textbook of the 21st century, The History of Art: A Global View equips students to understand the history of art in new and revealing ways."

Written by a team of authors whose expertise spans the globe, The Concise History of Art: A Global View offers a focused narrative that is truly representative of global art, spanning prehistory to the present. Its chronological organization shows students how art developed simultaneously around the world, encouraging them to draw cross-cultural connections. Each of the book’s four Parts is introduced with a thematic chapter that sets the stage for the artworks found in the chapters that follow. The Norton Illumine Ebook and InQuizitive adaptive learning tool help students engage more deeply with key concepts and practice their visual analysis skills.

Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.

A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art

Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.

A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art

Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, this study is one of the few attempts by an Africanist to situate local and regional artistic practices in the context of the global art market, and to trace the varied receptions an African art work is given as it leaves a local context and enters an international one. Drawing on her three seasons of fieldwork among Akan populations in Côte d'Ivoire, Monica Blackmun Visonà provides a comprehensive account of a major art-producing region of Africa, and explores such topics as gender roles in performance, the role of sculpture in divination, and the interchange of arts and ideas across ethnic boundaries. The book also addresses issues inherent in research practices, such as connoisseurship and participant observation, and examines theoretical positions that have had an impact on the discipline of African art history.

Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, this study is one of the few attempts by an Africanist to situate local and regional artistic practices in the context of the global art market, and to trace the varied receptions an African art work is given as it leaves a local context and enters an international one. Drawing on her three seasons of fieldwork among Akan populations in Côte d'Ivoire, Monica Blackmun Visonà provides a comprehensive account of a major art-producing region of Africa, and explores such topics as gender roles in performance, the role of sculpture in divination, and the interchange of arts and ideas across ethnic boundaries. The book also addresses issues inherent in research practices, such as connoisseurship and participant observation, and examines theoretical positions that have had an impact on the discipline of African art history.