Reframing Art History stages an intervention: it rethinks the traditional Western European art history curriculum with today’s students in mind. Spanning the 15th through 19th Centuries, the text introduces students to major art historical movements, artists, and artworks through in-depth formal analysis, theoretical concepts, and cultural contextualization. Each chapter is designed to support active, incremental learning while making historical content relatable and foregrounding marginalized voices.

Reframing Art History: A New Survey of 15th-19th Century Western European Art for 21st Century Learners includes:

• “Knowledge Checkpoints” that are interspersed throughout each chapter to reinforce and incentivize formative learning through active point accumulation.

• Multimedia Content and “Explore More” feature boxes that stoke curiosity by providing access to open-source enrichment materials.

• Core Concepts that break down art movements and historical moments into bite-sized ideas which students can more easily comprehend and readily apply.

• Key Artists that are drawn from the cannon as well as the margins so that women artists, artists of color, and topics like colonialism, racism, and sexism take center stage.

• Learning Activities that provide interactive opportunities to demonstrate summative knowledge through immersive virtual tours, creative role play scenarios, and argument-driven comparative analyses.

• Cross-Cultural Perspectives that look outside of the Western European bubble to provide global context and strengthen cultural empathy.

• Contemporary Connections that bridge past and present by showing how historical themes resurface within current visual culture and continue to impact our society today.