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Hannah Baader and Atreyee Gupta: Welcome and Introduction to “Global Modernisms”

Hannah Baader, Photo: Art Histories / Luise Illigen 2015 under CC BY SA 4.0

Hannah Baader, Photo: Art Histories/Luise Illigen 2015 under CC BY SA 4.0

With this welcome and introduction speech, Hannah Baader (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices/Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz/Max-Planck-Institut) and Atreyee Gupta (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Fellow 2015/2016) opened the Annual Conference on “Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Practices”. The Conference took place on 5 – 7 November 2015 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and was organized by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and convened by Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices.

Atreyee Gupta, Photo: Art Histories / Luise Illigen under CC BY SA 4.0

Atreyee Gupta, Photo: Art Histories/Luise Illigen under CC BY SA 4.0

Taking the years between 1905 and 1965 as the temporal frame, this conference sought to rethink Global Modernisms from a transregional perspective. Current conceptualizations of avantgardism and formal innovation often related to places like Paris, New York, Weimar or Moscow continue to inform Global Modernisms’ intellectual field. Global Modernisms are often presented as a symptom for new Westernism that masquerades as the universal. This conference sought a more constitutive conceptual vision.

The following interviews and contributions have emerged from the conference:


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Editorial Board (April 6, 2016). Hannah Baader and Atreyee Gupta: Welcome and Introduction to “Global Modernisms”. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Retrieved March 24, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/usj1


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