A more global, flexible way to teach art history
Jean Robertson is Chancellor's Professor of Art History Emeritus at Indiana University Indianapolis, Herron School of Art and Design, where she received three Indiana University awards for excellence in teaching. She specializes in art history and theory after 1980, viewed in a global context. She served as founding co-director of the Southern Ohio Museum and associate curator of the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art. Among her publications are Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980; Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet; and Painting as a Language: Material, Technique, Form, Content, all co-authored with Craig McDaniel.
Dr. Robertson wrote chapters on European and North American art from the Romantic period to the present. She was primary author on Chapter 74, "Art of the Global Contemporary," and coordinated contributions from co-authors who are experts on other regions. Along with Deborah Hutton, she is also the textbook's co-lead author, and assisted with editing all of the chapters, co-authoring the Part Openers, and coordinating vocabulary throughout.
