Kaira Cabañas’s (Art History) guest post “Whose Global Modernism?” and new book is featured by the University of California Press as part of the 2021 College Art Association Conference (#CAA2021) virtual exhibit. In the post, Cabañas speaks to the book’s origins, her intellectual refusals, and describes the work as an instance of “epistemic disobedience” (following Walter Mignolo) within modernist art history. Cabañas’s book, Immanent Vitalities: Matters of Modern and Contemporary Art, was published this month as part of the press’s “Studies in Latin American Art” series. Immanent Vitalities reflects the author’s dual expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century European and Latin American art and is an elaboration of her long-standing commitment to transnational and comparative studies. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, she historicizes changing perceptions about art’s agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience. Key for Cabañas is that Immanent Vitalities is a critical take on modernism and contemporary art, whereby she affirms how theoretically innovative and critical modernist art history can be produced in, of, and from Latin America. For more information, please visit their website.