Art History Update

This December issue of Texte zur Kunst attempts an “update” of art historical methods, which have been regularly reflected upon since the publication’s founding. The pressing questions of the moment not only ask whether the discipline is able to come to terms with its own history, including its inherent sexisms, racisms, and classicisms, but also whether the development of scholarly practices that advance the equality of different viewpoints and epistemologies is possible. The contributions collected in this issue lay bare art history’s still-existing entanglement in Eurocentric perspectives and propose alternative methodological and theoretical approaches to an expanded field of subject matter.