Huckle Publishes Translation
Nicholas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has published a translation into English of The Barbarian Invasions: A Genealogy of the History of Art, by Éric Michaud.
The book was first published in France in 2015 by Gallimard, and the English translation is with MIT Press. Michaud shows how the history of art, starting with the nineteenth century Romantics, is tied to the rise of nationalism in Europe, and he explores the ways in which art historians explicitly and implicitly linked works of art with race.
Huckle tells us, “I had already translated the introduction of this book for October magazine, and I was delighted when they asked me to do the rest of it. It’s a work of history, but it is really very topical.”