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    Jean Robertson

    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.

    Jean Robertson

    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.

    Books by Jean Robertson

    • The History of Art: A Global View: Prehistory to 1500

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Second Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, global approach that helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

    • The History of Art: A Global View: 1300 to the Present

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Second Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, global approach that helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

    • The Concise History of Art: A Global View: Prehistory to the Present

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Concise Second Edition, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, concise global approach helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

    • The History of Art: A Global View

      Monica Blackmun Visonà, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Deborah Hutton, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Jean Robertson, Stacey Sloboda

      First Edition, Paperback, 2022

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