Migrating Histories of Art: Self-Translations of a Discipline

Art Historians Have Been Facing The Challenge – Even From Before The Advent Of Globalization – Of Writing For An International Audience And Translating Their Own Work Into A Foreign Language – Whether Forced By Exile, Voluntary Migration, Or Simply In Order To Reach Wider Audiences. Migrating Histories Of Art Aims To Study The Biographical And Academic Impact Of These Self-translations, And How The Adoption And Processing Of Foreign-language Texts And Their Corresponding Methodologies Have Been Fundamental To The Disciplinary Discourse Of Art History. While Often Creating Distinctly Multifaceted Personal Biographies And Establishing An International Disciplinary Discourse, Self-translation Also Fosters The Creation Of Instances Of Linguistic And Methodological Hegemony.