ABSTRACT
At the School of the Art Institute every first-year student is required to take two art history survey classes. The first one covers the vast expanse from the earliest art works known to mankind up to the mid-19th century. The second semester survey, titled Modern and Contemporary Art, starts at the end of the 19th century and continues to the present. Both surveys generally centre on European and American Art. In today’s terms Global art is seen as the product of late 20th and early 21st century global capitalism and follows the idea that, thanks to the rapid flow of technology and migration, art and art publics circulate ever so widely. Art historians specializing in Modern and Contemporary Asian, African or Latin American Art have warned Western curators, museums and art historians of the dangers of reproducing binaries in an attempt to challenge dominant narratives.
