Allison K. Young



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Smarthistory 



Smarthistory is an open-access educational platform that provides free essays, videos, and other resources about Art History. I have been a Content Editor for Modern and Contemporary Art History with Smarthistory since 2014.


Smarthistory Commons Conversations



Webinar about the work of El Anatsui and teaching Global Contemporary Art






Smarthistory “Global Contemporary Art” Syllabus



Click here to view the “Global Contemporary Art” syllabus that I contributed to Smarthistory. This syllabus is a free, open-access resource for use by all instructors and students.








Smarthistory Essays


My articles and contributions to the website can be found below:


El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It...
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II
Yinka Shonibare MBE, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah
Xu Bing, Book From The Sky
Chris Ofili, Holy Virgin Mary
Ibrahim El Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams
Bill Viola, The Crossing
Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf



Reframing Art History


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

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