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Allison K. Young, Ph.D.

Essays and Videos

Smarthistory is an open-access educational platform that provides free essays, videos, and other resources about Art History. My articles and contributions to the website can be found below
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El Anatsui, Old Man's Cloth Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard) Ibrahim el Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams Julie Mehretu, Stadia II Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth's Creation Xu Bing, Book from the Sky Bill Viola, The Crossing Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf Richard Hamilton, Just What is It..


Reframing Art History


Reframing Art History is an open-access, collaboratively authored Art History textbook that will be expanding iteratively throughout 2022-2023. My contributed chapters can be found below.

Itinerant Modernisms: Cosmopolitans, Travelers, Exiles Art Into Life: Anti-Modernist Gestures Popular, Transient, Expendable: Print Culture and Propaganda Re-Mapping Land Art: Earthworks, Borderlands, Ecology