'These essays bring together voices that are involved in shaping the art and cultural scenes outside the Western mainstream. Focusing on the concept of belonging, they explore how contemporary art produced outside the bounds of dominant cultural circuits responds to the challenge posed by globalisation.

Entanglements between the local and the global, and the confluence of aesthetics and politics, are discussed from the point of view of the art historian, the sociologist, the critic, and the curator. The contributors address cultural nomadism and the experience of place, national identity and transcultural expression, the production of signs, and the implications of metaphor. The essays reveal how artists from traditional societies find in their cultural heritage the basis of a pluralistic creative expression, and how economic and political globalisation leads them to create new strategies of resistance.' - from back cover.

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REF.BOK
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

167

ISBN / ISSN

9780863566660

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Sharing a Meaning: An Introduction - Kamal BOULLATA

Part One: Critical Perspectives

History of My Face - Khaled MATTAWA

Borders and (Boarders) of Art: Notes from a Foreign Land - Frederick N. BOHRER

The Globalisation of Art - Achille BONITO OLIVA

Belonging and not Belonging - Laymert Garcia dos Santos

Where Here is Elsewhere - Jean FISHER

In Defence of Metaphor - Elias KHOURY

Spheres, Cities, Transitions: International Perspectives on Art and Culture - Gerardo MOSQUERA

Prospectives for a New Classicality - Boris BROLLO

Notes of Globalisation, National Identities, and the Production of Signs - Nicolas BOURRIAUD

The States of the Strait - Nadia TAZI

Beginning with Edward Said - Joseph A. MASSAD

Part Two: The Sharjah Experiment

The 7th Sharjah Biennial - Hoor AL QASIMI

A Place to Go - Jack PERSEKIAN

Unfolding Identities - Ken LUM, 林蔭庭

More than a Feeling: Issues of Curatorial Criteria - Tirdad ZOLGHADR

Belonging and Globalisation: Critical Essays in Contemporary Art and Culture
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Belonging and Globalisation: Critical Essays in Contemporary Art and Culture