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Detail, Man's Prestige Cloth, early 20th century, Akan peoples, Asante group, silk and cotton, 289.6 x 172.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The arts of Africa, c. 18th–20th century


The potentials of modern Chinese art in ...


Detail, Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Modern Art, Colonialism, Primitivism, and Indigenism: 1830–1950


Locomotives and tracks (detail), Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare (or Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line), 1877, oil on canvas, 75 x 104 cm (Musée d'Orsay)

A wider world in 19th-century Europe



Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (July 28, 1830), September – December 1830, oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Journeys in the 19th-century European world


Wilfredo Lam, The Jungle, 1942-43, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 94-1/4 x 90-1/2" / 239.4 x 229.9 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Latin American modernisms


uriburu grid

Re-Mapping Land Art: Earthworks, Borderlands, Ecology


Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972, assemblage, 11 3/4 x 8 x 2 3/4 inches (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)

Art into Life: Anti-Modernist Gestures



Itinerant Modernisms: Cosmopolitans, Exiles, Travelers since 1950


tlahuicole grid

Art and Nationalism in 19th-century Latin America


Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2001, cut paper and projection on wall, 4.3 x 11.3m, (Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg) © Kara Walker

Popular, Transient, Expendable: Print Culture and Propaganda ...


Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19, oil on canvas, 4.91 x 7.16m (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Empires and their endings in the late ...




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