The European Canon Through a Global Lens examines how contemporary artists working in video and photography engage with canonical Western fine art and its institutions. Drawing on a diverse corpus of works by global artists from East Asia, Europe, the African diaspora, and the Middle East, the book maps the centrifugal and centripetal forces operating around the European canon as a persistent hegemonic core. These forces do not alternate or contradict one another; they act concurrently, generating the turbulent conditions within which global artists navigate their relationship to Western cultural tradition. The result is a dynamic body of artistic rewritings that negotiates Eurocentrism through aesthetic intervention rather than rejection.

Hava Aldouby is Associate Professor of Art History at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on moving-image art and migratory aesthetics. She is the author of Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film (University of Toronto Press, 2013) and editor of Shifting Interfaces: An Anthology of Presence, Empathy and Agency in Early 21st Century Media Arts (Leuven University Press, 2020). Her papers appear in Art Journal, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and Projections: The Journal for Movies and Minds.