Migrating Histories of Art - Self-translations of a Discipline

Art historians have been facing the challenge - even from before the advent of globalization - of writing for an international audience and translating their own work into a foreign language - whether forced by exile, voluntary migration, or simply in order to reach wider audiences.
Migrating Histories of Art aims to study the biographical and academic impact of these self-translations, and how the adoption and processing of foreign-language texts and their corresponding methodologies have been fundamental to the disciplinary discourse of art history. While often creating distinctly "multifaceted" personal biographies and establishing an international disciplinary discourse, self-translation also fosters the creation of instances of linguistic and methodological hegemony.

About the author

Maria Teresa Costa, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz; Hans Christian Hönes, Warburg Institute, London.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christian Hönes (Editor), Maria Teresa Costa (Editor), Hans Christian Hönes (Editor), Mari Teresa Costa (Editor)
• Publisher: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 724 g
• Illustrations: 40 Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen
• Series: Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus; Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history