Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond

I'm so very pleased to announce a volume edited by two of my friends from graduate school, Cindy Persinger and Azar Rejaie--Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History. With contributions from an international set of professors, curators, and arts organizers, this book asks "What is socially engaged art history?" and is the first full-length study to focus on the ideas of the growing number of art historians who seek to look beyond the academy in their art-historical praxis.

Presenting arguments for the benefits of community-engaged, applied, and socially engaged art history, the first two sections look at socially engaged art history from theoretical, pedagogical, and contextual perspectives. The concluding section offers case studies that highlight the work that is being done in this area, with the intention of inspiring further theoretical and practical work.

You can read more about it and order here.