This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.
Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, Ding Ning, Cuautemoc Medina, Oliver Debroise, Renato Gonzalez Mello, and other scholars.

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is author of Pictures andTears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is, and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion inContemporary Art and Master Narratives and TheirDiscontents, all published by Routledge.

Section 1. Introductory Essay Section 2. Starting Points Notes on Art History in Latin America Andrea Giunta The Modality of Spatial Categories Friedrich Teja Bach Section 3. The Art Seminar Section Section 4. Assessments Section 5. Afterwords Globalizing Art History Shelly Errington