The Graeco-Buddhist style of Gandhara: a “Storia ideologica”, or: how a discourse makes a global history of art

This paper is embedded in the new methodological - transcultural - approach of Global Art History: it questions the taxonomies and values built into the discipline since its inception, with their claim to universal validity, and tries to constitute new units of investigation by contextualizing the m...

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Main Author: Falser, Michael (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: December 2015
In: Journal of art historiography
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-53
ISSN:2042-4752
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Author Notes:Michael Falser

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