Location

A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.

• Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
• Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
• Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the repositioning of ownership

On location: Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen.

The errant image: Rogier van derWeyden’s Deposition from the Cross and its copies: Amy Powell.

Signposts of invention: artists’ signatures in Italian Renaissance art: Patricia Rubin.

Locating ‘China’ in the arts of sixteenth-century Japan: Andrew M. Watsky.

Georgianism and the tenements, Dublin 1908–1926: Mark Crinson.

Statues in the square: hauntings at the heart of empire: Deborah Cherry.

The Buddha goes global: some thoughts towards a transnational art history: Clare Harris.

Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on location at Venice: the allegorical Indian redux: Charlotte Townsend-Gault.

Author biographies.

Index

Deborah Cherry is Professor of the History of Art at the University of the Arts, London.

Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham.

How important is location in producing, understanding, and curating art? What happens when art and artists migrate? Thisexciting and provocative collection brings together seven essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of ‘location’.

‘Location’ is considered in many different ways: the migration of art and artists in the past and the present, trans-national and trans-cultural exchanges and international exhibitions, the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging difference, and the significance of location in producing, writing about and curating art in Europe, North America and Asia. An attention to place and space in global and local settings highlights site-specificity as well as global connections, actual and imaginary locations, the places and positions of viewing, and the location of the artist, in the studio and in the work.