Biennials, triennials, and documenta : the exhibitions that created contemporary art / Charles Green and Anthony Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Charles, 1953- author.

Gardner, Anthony, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization--History--20th century.

Art and globalization.

Art and globalization--History--21st century.

Biennials--History.

Biennials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s and the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s to the current globalization of biennials"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontispiece; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Introduction; Why Biennials?; Part 1. The Second Wave; Part 2. The Politics of Legitimacy; Part 3. Hegemony or a New Canon; The Cultural Geography of Biennials; Notes; Part 1: The Second Wave; 1: 1972: The Rise of the Star-Curator; Introduction; Preparation for a Walk-Through Event Structure; "Therapy Has Changed and No Longer Encourages Copious Art Production"; "The Most Important Exhibition of Recent Years"; Conclusion; Notes; 2: 1979: Cultural Translation, Cultural Exclusion, and the Second Wave

Introduction: Biennials as Models for Cultural EncountersFounding the Sydney Biennale; White Elephant or Red Herring? Selecting the 1979 Biennale of Sydney; Import/Export: Sydney and São Paulo; Conclusion; Notes; 3: 1986: The South and the Edges of the Global; Introduction: Origin Stories; A Brief History of Southern Biennials; The Second Bienal de La Habana; Conclusion: The Stakes of Southern Histories; Notes; Part 2: The Politics of Legitimacy; 4: 1989: Asian Biennialization; Introduction; Experimental Versus Traditional Art: "Traditions/Tensions"; Conclusion; Notes

5: 1997: Biennials, Migration, and ItinerancyIntroduction; Manifesta and Critical Regionalism; Locality Fails: The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale; By Way of Conclusion: The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya; Notes; Part 3: Hegemony or a New Canon; 6: 2002: Cosmopolitanism; Introduction; The Five-Year Subaltern Plan; Black Box, White Cube; Conclusion; Notes; 7: 2003: Delegating Authority; Introduction; Tirana: "Opening Up the Conversation"; Escape; Curating by Delegation: The 50th Venice Biennale: The Dictatorship of the Viewer; "Counterbalance the Decadence of the Ancient City"

"Outmoded Structure of National Pavilions and Theme Exhibitions"Conclusion; Notes; 8: 2014: Global Art Circuits; Introduction; The Game of Comparison and Competition; Negotiated Inequality; Contemporary Play Time; Coda: 2014; Notes; 9: Conclusion; Notes; Index; EULA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781444336658

1444336657

9781119212676

1119212677

9781119212669

1119212669

OCLC:

928136919