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Introduction to an Interval: Potential Asian and Diasporic American Art History(ies)

Introduction to an Interval: Potential Asian and Diasporic American Art History(ies) 1There are multiple beginnings to the collection of ideas and exchanges gathered in this special issue on “Asian American art histories.” In one sense, this project began in Fall 2020 when we were drafting ideas that later became a full panel sponsored by the Association of Historians of American Art and presented at the 2022 College Art Association Annual Conference. During the months when our thoughts came to language, we were simultaneously working within and against pressures from academic and museum programs to counteract deep rooted injustice using the celebratory production of an Asian American art history—as if such a history could first be made legible and digestible through existing expectations for curricula, exhibitions, collections, historical surveys, and other institutional modes of representation. As if “add a few more Asian Americans to the program” was an appropriate response to the thick erasure of Asian American and diasporic work in museums and academies. The mass protests and uprisings that broke out across the United States in May 2020 following George Floyd’s murder by police—compounding with collective grief over the police murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and state-sanctioned violence against Black life—prompted cultural institutions to publicly reckon with and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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2352-3077
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10.1163/23523085-08010001
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1There are multiple beginnings to the collection of ideas and exchanges gathered in this special issue on “Asian American art histories.” In one sense, this project began in Fall 2020 when we were drafting ideas that later became a full panel sponsored by the Association of Historians of American Art and presented at the 2022 College Art Association Annual Conference. During the months when our thoughts came to language, we were simultaneously working within and against pressures from academic and museum programs to counteract deep rooted injustice using the celebratory production of an Asian American art history—as if such a history could first be made legible and digestible through existing expectations for curricula, exhibitions, collections, historical surveys, and other institutional modes of representation. As if “add a few more Asian Americans to the program” was an appropriate response to the thick erasure of Asian American and diasporic work in museums and academies. The mass protests and uprisings that broke out across the United States in May 2020 following George Floyd’s murder by police—compounding with collective grief over the police murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and state-sanctioned violence against Black life—prompted cultural institutions to publicly reckon with and

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Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas – Brill

Published: May 22, 2023

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