Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond

What is socially engaged art history? Art history is typically understood as a discipline in which academics produce scholarship for consumption by other academics. Today however, an increasing number of art historians are seeking to broaden their understanding of art historical praxis and look beyond the academy and towards socially engaged art history. This is the first book-length study to focus on these growing and significant trends. It presents various arguments for the social, pedagogical, and scholarly benefits of alternative, community-engaged, public-facing, applied, and socially engaged art history. The international line up of contributors includes academics, museum and gallery curators as well as arts workers. The first two sections of the book look at socially engaged art history from theoretical, pedagogical, and contextual perspectives. The concluding part offers a range of provocative case studies that highlight the varied and rigorous work that is being done in this area and provide a variety of inspiring models. Taken together the chapters in this book provide much-needed disciplinary recognition to socially engaged art history, while also serving as a springboard to further theoretical and practical work.

Cindy Persinger is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Communication, Design, and Culture at California University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Azar Rejaie is Associate Professor of Art History in and Chair of the Department of Arts and Communication at the University of Houston Downtown, USA.

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Cindy Persinger is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Communication, Design, and Culture at California University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Azar Rejaie is Associate Professor of Art History in and Chair of the Department of Arts and Communication at the University of Houston Downtown, USA.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

Azar Rejaie

Part I Envisioning

2 Introduction to Envisioning

Cindy Persinger

3 What Is Socially Engaged Art History?

Cindy Persinger

4 Cultivating an Engaged Art History from

Interdisciplinary Roots

Laura M. Holzman

5 Art History and Its Publics: Weighing the Pedagogical

and Research Benefits of Community Engagement Julia A. Sienkewicz 6 Visual Critical Pedagogy in High School: Students

Offer an Alternative to the Official Art Curriculum

Ya'ara Gil-Glazer Part II Intersections

7 Introduction to Intersections

Azar Rejaie

8 Applied Art History: Theory and Praxis

Jenna Ann Altomonte

9 The Course Has Left the Classroom: Community Engagement, Consensus Building, and Experiential Learning as Socially Engaged Art History

Jonathan Wallis

10 Observing Light and Catching Reflections:

Experiential Environmentally Centered Art Historical

Practice Inside and Outside the Classroom

Kelly A. Wacker 11 Public Sculpture Exhibitions in Neighborhoods: Arts-Driven, Heritage-Based,

Urban Revitalization,

and Social Practice (Part 1)

Hilary A. Braysmith

12 Curatorial Practice as (Place) Making: Social

Imagination, Cultural Laboratories, and Public Space in Madrid (20082015) Olga Fernández López, Azucena Klett, and

Zoe López Mediero

13 Making Worlds: Normative and Other Art Histories

of Visually Impaired Photographers

Vendela Grundell Gachoud

Part III Implementation

14 Introduction to Implementation

Cindy Persinger

15 The Power of Silence: Ahmet Ögüt's The Silent

University (2012Ongoing)

Luisa Santos

16 Curating to Remember Injustice: Exhibitions

on Toyo Miyatake and Roger Shimomura

Aileen June Wang 17 HAIR CLUB: A Case Study for Socially Engaged Art History

Suzanne Gold, Kelly Lloyd, and Michal Lynn Shumate

18 The Running Fence Corporation, LLC and Sociality

John-Michael H. Warner

19 Turning Students into Social Practitioners and

Neighborhood Youths and Young Adults into Project Assistants: Arts-Driven, Heritage-Based, Urban Revitalization, and Social Practice (Part 2)

Hilary A. Braysmith

20 Building Community (Art) History in Standing

Together: The Selma Burke Project

Terri Baltimore and Julia A. Sienkewicz

21 Student Docent Projects as Socially Engaged

Art History

Rebecka A. Black and Carissa DiCindio

22 Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History

Laura M. Holzman

23 Reflections on Socially Engaged History

Cindy Persinger

Index