Decolonizing culture : essays on the intersection of art and politics / Anuradha Vikram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vikram, Anuradha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Decolonization in art.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

153 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Art Practical Books, [2017]

Summary:

"Anuradha Vikram's Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces. Originally published between 2013 and 2017 through Daily Serving's #Hashtags column, Vikram's text considers the specifics of equality and representation in the context of current events in the field of arts and culture in the United States and internationally. The columns cover a number of racially charged incidents in arts institutions during this period that received significant press attention, but little meaningful analysis. Vikram examines how arts institutions construct space and select programming in accordance with their expectations of their audience, and how a disconnect between the realities of contemporary urban demographics and the leadership at many arts institutions has led to controversy and embarrassment on numerous occasions. Contrasting with these case studies in institutional exclusion are a number of profiles of artists and artworks that bring art's potential for inclusivity to fruition, working within institutions as well as outside of them to bring change"--Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Bean Gilsdorf

Introduction: Can art persist?

I. Being there.

The political biennale

Whose museum is it anyway?

The ethnicity exhibition

Sweet and low

The trouble with the Mission School

Mimics and minstrels

II. Doing well by doing good.

Culture, class, and the new economy

The business end of art

Education on contingency

Punk is dead, long live punk

Divide//Conquer: artists confront the gentrification of urban space

III. The immanent public.

The painting

Conceptualizing difference

Toward the Black museum

Learn where the meat comes from

On disgust

The body without organs

Images.

Afterword / Michele Carlson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780998500652

0998500658

OCLC:

1007152194