Bringing together scholarly essays, artists' statements and art reproductions of the contemporary art scene, this volume is interdisciplinary in approach, mixing both established and emergent art voices. This anthology focuses on key theoretical and aesthetic issues in contemporary art in cultural, historical, and socio-political contexts, including media, architecture, postmodernism, multiculturalism, identity politics, censorship, AIDS, postcolonialism, globalization, technology and spectatorship.

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English

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

444

ISBN / ISSN

0631228675

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1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Simon LEUNG, 梁碩恩, Zoya KOCUR

Part I: Contemporary Art Practices and Models

1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990)

- Pierre BOURDIEU

2 When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond (1994)

- Thierry DE DUVE

3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997)

- Miwon KWON

4 The Curator's Moment (1998)

- Michael BRENSON

5 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994)

- Andrea FRASER

6 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2004)

- Grant H. KESTER

7 "yBa" as Critique: The Socio-Political Inferences of the Mediated Identity of Recent British Art (1997)

- James GAYWOOD

8 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens (2004)

- Liz KOTZ

Part II: Culture/Identities/Political Fields

9 The War on Culture (1990)

- Carole S. VANCE

10 Feminist Fundamentalism: Women Against Images (1993)

- Carole S. VANCE

11 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (1987)

- Douglas CRIMP

12 Architecture of the Evicted (1990)

- Rosalyn DEUTSCHE

13 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993)

- Judith BUTLER

14 Cornered: A Video Installation Project (1992)

- Adrian PIPER

15 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993)

- Charles A. WRIGHT Jr.

16 Haunted TV (1992)

- Avital RONELL

Part III: Postcolonial Critiques

17 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1992)

- Gerardo MOSQUERA

18 In the "Heart of Darkness" (1993)

- Olu OGUIBE

19 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996)

- Jean FISHER

20 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004)

- LEE Weng Choy, 李永財

21 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991)

- TRINH T. Minh Ha

Part IV: Rethinking Aesthetics

22 A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989)

- Benjamin H.D. BUCHLOH

23 Notes on Surface: Towards a Genealogy of Flatness (2000)

- David JOSELIT

24 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998)

- WU Hung, 巫鴻

25 Function and Field: Demarcating Conceptual Practices (2004)

- Nana LAST

26 1989

- Juli CARSON

Part V: Theories after Postmodernism

27 Postmodernism and Periphery (1987)

- Nelly RICHARD

28 Looking for Trouble (1991)

- Kobena MERCER

29 Repossessing Popular Culture (1993)

- Laura KIPNIS

30 The Lightness of Theory (1993)

- John RAJCHMAN

31 Informe without Conclusion (1996)

- Rosalind KRAUSS

32 The Database (2001)

- Lev MANOVICH

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