The Stone Art Theory Institutes is a series of books that centre on the status of art theory as it is thought and used in academia and in the art world. Each volume is devoted to particular 'words' and 'concepts' that are thought-provoking, wide-reaching in terms of research and thus in need of much deconstruction. This first volume focuses on words like globalisation, translation, governmentality, and hybridity, and is a result of a week-long event attended by international scholars held in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The contributors, unlike giving lectures and conventional paper presentation, attended long sessions of seminars and panel discussions, the result of which are transcribed into texts that are edited into this volume. This explains the straightforwardness of the texts within the book.

'The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, political economy, sociology, and anthropology. Art and Globalization brings political and cultural theorists together with writers and historians concerned specifically with the visual arts in order to test the limits of the conceptualization of the global in art.
Among the major writers on contemporary international art represented in this book are Rasheed Araeen, Joaquín Barriendos, Susan Buck-Morss, John Clark, Iftikhar Dadi, T. J. Demos, Néstor García Canclini, Charles Green, Suman Gupta, Harry Harootunian, Michael Ann Holly, Shigemi Inaga, Fredric Jameson, Caroline Jones, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Anthony D. King, Partha Mitter, Keith Moxey, Saskia Sassen, Ming Tiampo, and C. J. W.-L. Wee.' - from publisher's website.

The Seminars are rough-edited, participants-reviewed scripts from the event. The Assessments section are written by those who did not attend the seminars. The resulting volume is hence an articulate and intimate conversation across geographical boundaries.

Includes notes on the contributors and an index.
Alternative title

The Stone Art Theory Institutes: Volume One

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.ELJ
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

294

ISBN / ISSN

9780271037172

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

First Introduction - James ELKINS

Second Introduction - Zhivka VALIAVICHARSKA

The Seminar

The National Situation - Fredric JAMESON, Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN, James ELKINS, Shigemi INAGA, 稲賀繁美, Pedro ERBER, Harry HAROOTUNIAN

Translation - Shigemi INAGA, 稲賀繁美, Bhaskar MUKHOPADHYAY, Pedro ERBER, James ELKINS, Shelly ERRINGTON, Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN

The Prehistory of Globalization - Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN, Shelly ERRINGTON, Michele GREET, James ELKINS, Michael Ann HOLLY, Bhaskar MUKHOPADHYAY

Hybridity - James ELKINS, Zhivka VALIAVICHARSKA, Michele GREET, Karl HAKKEN, Joyce BRODSKY, Darby ENGLISH

Temporality - Michael Ann HOLLY, Harry HAROOTUNIAN, Pamela LEE, Darby ENGLISH, Susan BUCK-MORSS, Keith MOXEY

Postcolonial Narratives - Michele GREET, Susan BUCK-MORSS, Pedro ERBER, Bhaskar MUKHOPADHYAY, Keith MOXEY, Joyce BRODSKY

Neoliberalism - Pamela LEE, Zhivka VALIAVICHARSKA, Suzana MILEVSKA, Isla LEAVER-YAP, Shelly ERRINGTON, Shigemi INAGA, 稲賀繁美

Four Failures of the Seminars - James ELKINS, Susan BUCK-MORSS, Zhivka VALIAVICHARSKA, Harry HAROOTUNIAN, Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN, Michele GREET

Universality - James ELKINS, Zhivka VALIAVICHARSKA, Susan BUCK-MORSS, Harry HAROOTUNIAN, Shigemi INAGA, 稲賀繁美, Bhaskar MUKHOPADHYAY

Assessments

Globalism/Globalization - Caroline JONES, 鍾斯嘉露蓮

Letter on Globalization - Karl Eric LEITZEL

Letter on Globalization - Rasheed ARAEEN

Hybridization and the Geopolitics of Art - Nestor Garcia CANCLINI

The Oxymoron of Global Art - Blake GOPNIK

Circulate, but Without Differences! - Marina GRZINIC

Academic Difficulties with 'Convergence': Globalization and Contemporary Art - Jonathan HARRIS

Art, Globalization, and Imperialism - Anthony D. KING

Narratives of Belonging: On the Relation of the Art Institution and the Changing Nation-State - Nina MONTMANN

Originality, Universality, and Other Modernist Myths - Ming TIAMPO, 蔡宇鳴

Contemporary Art, 'Contemporaneity,' and World Art History - Reiko TOMII, 富井玲子

Speaking of Modern and Contemporary Asia Art - C.J. Wan-ling WEE

A Distant View - John CLARK, 姜苦樂

Globalization and Transnational Modernism - Iftikhar DADI

Art History and Architecture's Aporia - Mark JARZOMBEK

So What Might be Solved Here? - Tani BARLOW

Perspectives on Scale: From the Atomic to the Universal - Esther GABARA

A Remark on Globalization in (East) Central Europe - Jan BAKOS

Globalization and (Contemporary) Art - T.J. DEMOS

Thinking Through Shards of China - Chris BERRY

In and Out of the Local - PAI Hyungmin, 배형민

What's Wrong with Global Art? - Partha MITTER

Global Art History and Transcultural Studies - Carolyn LOEB

Looking for Something - Suman GUPTA

Nomadic Territories and Times - SASSEN Saskia

Dead Parrot Society - Charles GREEN

Geoaesthetic Hierarchies: Geography, Geopolitics, Global Art, and Coloniality - Joaquín BARRIENDOS

Afterword - James ELKINS

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