Storytellers of Art Histories: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life

About this book

An anthology amplifying the voices of the figures reshaping art histories across disciplines and a range of fluid practices. With a focus on gender race (including whiteness) class sexuality and transnationalityall of which are often marginalized in dominant art historieseach individual has provided short often personal contributions detailing how they become passionate about their practice. The contributors offerings are varied and surprising appealing equally to people enmeshed in the field through their work as well as those with a beginners interest. Their pieces take various formsepistolary childrens fable interview coauthored narrative pastiche memoir manifesto and apologyand a number of the essays perform in their structure or content the theories they explore about publishing curating and archival work.