Explores global critical theory as it has shaped art history, artists, and art production from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Theories examined include those located in art formalism, Marxism, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, material culture studies, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, the Anthropocene and environmentalism, postmodernism, Indigenous studies, Black studies, and postcolonial, anti-colonial, and decolonial studies. Examines critical shifts in theory as they relate to narrating the histories of art and to the work and lives of artists.