the Global History of Art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the Negro Christian Kravagna 194 with similar issues since the early 20th century. This essay uses a major mid- 20th century artistic project, Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the Negro murals for the library of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, to shed light on the history of art from a transcultural, if not global, point of view. The analysis of the African-American painter’s six-panel mural (1950 − 51) shows a unique programme that embeds modern art’s genealogies within the larger frame- work of
was the first to think of ›recognition‹ as a basic principle of personal identity, social order and global history. The article deals with a significant current de- bate about the meaning of the Haitian Revolution in Hegel’s philosophy. What, in He- gel’s work, is the meaning of the Revolution or the ›fight for recognition‹ led by Afri- can slaves in Saint-Domingue? What is the relationship between Hegel’s philosophy and globalization? It will be shown that, for systematic reasons, Hegel could neither ignore nor accept the Haitian Revolution. This ought to have
