The last issue of ARTL@S Bulletin (Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2017)) edited by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is now available online.

It includes contributions of distinct scholars invited to reflect around the topic of “Art History and the Global Challenge.” Head of the project MoDe(s) Paula Barreiro López and member of the team Jonathan Harris, are among the contributors, along with Sven Spieker, Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, Atreyee Gupta and Patrick D. Flores.

“In order to propose a “world history” and to honor all the productions from all the continents, especially those that have been so far despised, the best would be to articulate a world-wide narrative. We need an  narrative, not only emancipatedfrom the hierarchies that belong to the canon (old/modern, fine arts/crafts, kitsch/classical), but also a narrative that goes beyond the production of hierarchies, from which even the postcolonial narrative has difficulties to escape (dominant/dominated). How to produce a narrative that, in addition, connects “local” collections and “international” collections, keeping at the same time a link between both of them?”  (Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Introduction, “L’histoire mondiale de l’art, au défi d’un grand récit”).