ARH206 Reading AssignmentTotal word count at least 500Partha Mitter, “Decentering Modernism: Art History and Avant-Garde Art from the Periphery,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Dec., 2008): 531-548.Answer all these questions1. What does Mitter mean by modern artists at the center and on the periphery, and how does the dynamic between center and periphery relate to colonialism? (2)2. What does Mitter mean by the ‘universalist’ project of art history, and what is problematic about that narrative? (2)3. How did artists in Europe’s former colonies respond to modernism’s revolt against tradition and existing structures of power? (2)4. How did the exhibition "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern(Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985) evaluate non-Western art relative to Western modernism, and what was problematic about that comparison? (2)5. What does Mitter mean by the “Picasso manqué syndrome”? How have art historians traditionally described Western artists who took inspiration from non-Western “tribal” art differently than non-Western artists who took inspiration from Western modernism? (2)6. What is the problem with reducing the act of borrowing artistic styles from the past or from other cultures to “influence”? How has stylistic influence been described differently by art historians discussing Western versus Non-Western artists who borrow stylistic elements from a culture or time period to which they do not belong. To answer this question, think about the different meanings of terms related to “influence” discussed my Mitter, such as imitation versus emulation. (3)7. What are some of the strategies and/or concepts that Mitter discusses that seek to update the methods of art historians and make the study of modernism less monolithic and linear and more diverse and global? (3)8. Based on Mitter’s observations about the textbook Art Since 1900 throughout the article, what critical remarks might you make about the textbook for this course, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective? (2)