Claire Farago

Claire Farago (Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder; affiliated with CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA) publishes on art theory, transcultural studies, museums studies, critical theory, and is a specialist on the writings of Leonardo da Vinci. Reframing the Renaissance (Yale UP, 1995) opened the field of art history to critical transcultural studies. Transforming Images (Penn State UP, 2006), is a collaborative case study of a contact zone. Art Is Not What You Think It Is (Wiley-Blackwells, 2012) and Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (Ashgate, 2004; Routledge, 2019), are both collaborations with Donald Preziosi. The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della Pittura (2018), is a scholarly edition with an international team of specialists. Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis (Routledge Press, 2025), studies the entanglement of art as an index of humanness with global expansionism, extractive capitalism, and environmental damage. Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies is co-edited with Susan Lowish and Jens Baumgarten (Routledge Press, August 2025).