Remapping Early Modern Art History: Globalizing Our Methodologies
In undertaking our praxis in an increasingly globalized world, art historians may have an advantage over many other disciplines in that, having appropriated methodologies from all around us, we have amassed a box of tools that is already pluralized. But honing those tools to our more specific tasks in the present context requires further reflection, so I offer up three propositions toward a globalization of art historical methodology for our mutual consideration. My larger objective is to remap Dutch art in more global perspective by investigating the visual culture of key early modern contact zones not just from the Dutch viewpoint, but from more sides of the encounters in question.