"Third Text is an international scholarly journal dedicated to providing critical perspectives on art and visual culture. The journal examines the theoretical and historical ground by which the West legitimises its position as the ultimate, arbiter of what is significant within this field. Established in 1987, the journal provides a forum for the discussion and (re)appraisal of theory and practice of art, art history and criticism, and the work of artists hitherto marginalised through racial, gender, religious and cultural differences. Dealing with diversity of art practices - visual arts, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, video and film - Third Text addresses the complex cultural realities that emerge when different worldviews meet, and the challenge this poses to Eurocentrism and ethnocentric aesthetic criteria. The journal aims to develop new discourses and radical interdisciplinary scholarships that go beyond the confines of eurocentricity." This is issue 56 (Autumn 2001), edited by Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar: featuring an essay of preeminent art historian Bernard Smith by Ihab Hassan; Xiaoping Lin on how the movie, Red Corner is a Hollywood/American orientalist interpretation of a communist China; and a review of Mary Kelly's Mea Culpa, her four-part installation piece on war atrocities.
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Third Text: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, (Third Text: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture), (Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture)

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English

Publication/Creation date

2001

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In print

ISBN / ISSN

09528822

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1

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magazine/journal/newspaper

Chapter headings

The Language of Trust: Bernard Smith, Global Antipodean - Ihab HASSAN

Toying With Totem?

Good-bye Identity, Welcome Difference from Latin American Art to Art from Latin America

Especially Good Aboriginal Art

Red Corner: An Orientalist Nightmare in a Globalised World - Xiaoping LIN

Making Whiteness Strange: White Identity in Post-Apartheid South African Art

Sleeping with the Enemy and Re-visiting Postcolonial Theory

Ali G: Just Who Do We Think He Is?

Mary Kelly - Mea Culpa

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Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture (No. 56; Autumn 2001)