Kafu (Japan, 19th-20th century), Two Girls By the Sea (1920s)
August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914), Blue Girl Reading (1912)
Kerry James Marshall (United States, born 1955), Knowledge and Wonder (1995)
Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkey, 1842-1910), Young Woman Reading (1880)
Mary Cassatt (United States, 1844-1926), The Reading Lesson (1901)
Fang Junbi (China, 1898-1986), Zen Life: Dr. Suzuki (1961)
Rogier van der Weyden (Belgium, 15th century), The Magdalen Reading (1400s)
DEIJ Reading Group Events & Study Sessions
As part of our department’s commitment to fostering a robust discussion of racism and white supremacy within — and at the very root of — the history of art, the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Committee has organized a series of study sessions to explore recent scholarship that addresses this issue from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
The DEIJ Committee is always happy to take suggestions for future books, book chapters, and articles that will be productive in cultivating a dialogue about the intertwined histories of art and white supremacy and offering methods of engaging with these histories in the modern moment.
The "further reading" section featured below includes texts that were considered by the DEIJ Committee but not ultimately selected for our reading group as well as other introductory resources about race and racism in the history of art.
Autumn 2023:
Copeland, Huey. "Flow and Arrest." Small Axe, vol. 19 no. 3, 2015, p. 205-224. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/602421.
Getsy, David J. “How to Teach Manet’s Olympia” Art History, vol. 45 issue 2, p. 342-369.
Spring 2022:
McCarthy-Brown, Nya. "Navigating Anti-Racism in an Anti-Black Landscape," International Journal of Education & the Arts 23, no. 1 (2002).
Autumn 2021:
Michaud, Eric. "Barbarian Invasions and the Racialization of Art History," in Barbarian Invasions: A Genealogy of the History of Art.
"What is Radical?" ARTMargins 10, no. 3 (2022) 8-96.
Grant, Catherine Grant and Dorothy Price, "Decolonizing Art History," Art History 43, no. 1 (2020): 8-66.
Hutton, Deborah. “Overcoming Art History’s Meta-Narrative.” In The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black, Tatiana Flores, and Florencia San Martín, 1st ed., 196–206. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.
Nelson, Robert S., "The Map of Art History," Art Bulletin 79, no. 1 (1997) 28-40.
Tuck, Eve and Yang, Wayne. "Decolonization is not a metaphor." Decolonization:,Indigeneity,,Education,&,Society, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2012) pp. 1-40.