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Using a range of theoretical perspectives, this book offers a study on key issues such as temporality, theatricality, word-and-image relations, the narrative function of inanimate objects, the role played by viewers, and the ways in which visual narrative has been bound up with history painting.

Essays in this volume emphasize questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations, and provide an overview of current research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and presenting individual case studies.

During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which were characterized as 'expressionist', yet the notion of an expressionist art history has yet to be fully explored in historiographic studies.