A collection of 33 essays by academics from various parts of the world, Globalization and Contemporary Art explores the impact globalisation has had on contemporary art and its socio-cultural spheres of production, circulation, and consumption.
‘Tackling the subject through a variety of useful analytics — forms and formations, institutions, the production of meaning, identifications, and reproductions — Globalization and Contemporary Art challenges the status of art history as the dominant discipline able to recognize and account for developments in visual art and "art worlds" since the 1980s. Collectively, this set of essays suggests how and why such a necessary re-conceptualization should take place and with what consequences.' (excerpt from back cover)
‘Tackling the subject through a variety of useful analytics — forms and formations, institutions, the production of meaning, identifications, and reproductions — Globalization and Contemporary Art challenges the status of art history as the dominant discipline able to recognize and account for developments in visual art and "art worlds" since the 1980s. Collectively, this set of essays suggests how and why such a necessary re-conceptualization should take place and with what consequences.' (excerpt from back cover)
Access level
Onsite
editor
Location code
REF.HAJ4
Language
English
Keywords
Publication/Creation date
2011
No of pages
534
ISBN / ISSN
9781405179508
No of copies
2
Content type
anthology
Chapter headings
Introduction: Globalization and Contemporary Art: A Convergence of Peoples and Ideas
1. Institutions
'Real Time' and Real Time at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Peddling Time When Standing Still: Art Remains in Lebanon and the Globization That Was
Homogeneity or Individuation? A Long View of the Critical Paradox of Contemporary Art in a Stateless Nation
Museums in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity: Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum (1992)
Africus Johannesburg Biennale 1995: Butisi Tart?
2. Formations
Post-Crisis: Scenes of Cultural Change in Buenos Aires
Evolution within the Revolution: The Afro-Cuban Cultural Movement and Cuban Art Collectives, 1975 to 2000
'Ka Muhe's, He i'a Holoua': Kanaka Maoli Art and the Challenge of the Global Market
Aboriginal Cosmopolitans: A Prehistory of Western Desert Painting
Working to Learn Together: Failure as Tactic
3. Means and Forces of Production
The Two Economies of World Art
The Spectacle and Its Others: Labor, Conflict, and Art in the Age of Global Capital
Cultural Mercantilism: Modernism's Means of Production: The Gutai Group as Case Study
Audiovisionaries of the Network Planet
4. Identifications
Contemporary Asian Art and the West
World Pictures: Globalization and Visual Culture
Leave of Grass and Real Allegory: A Case Study of International Rebellion
Collaboration in Art Society: A Global Pursuit of Democratic Dialogue
5. Forms
Globalization Questions and Contemporary Art's Answers: Art in Palestine
Political Islam and the Time of Contemporary Art
Displaced Models: Techniques and Tactics of Reproduction across the Genres and Institutions of Western Art from Duchamp to Doujak
White Man Got No Dreaming: Indigenous Art, Apartheid and the Emergence of 'Global Style' Painting in Australia
The Discourse of (L)imitation: A Case Study with Hole-Digging in 1960s Japan
6. Reproduction
Art and Postcolonial Society
Why Art History is Global
The Agency of the Historian in the Construction of National Identity in Colombian Architecture
Aboriginal Art and Australian Modernism: An Althusserian Critique
Gesturing No(w)here
7. Organization
The Emergence of Powerhouse Dealers in Contemporary Art
The Art Market in Transition, the Global Economic Crisis, and the Rise of Asia
Global Contemporary? The Global Horizon of Art Events
'Institutionalized Globalization,' Contemporary Art, and the Corporate Gulag in Chile
Culture, Neoliberal Development, and the Future of Progressive Politics in Southeastern Europe
Globalization and Contemporary Art
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