Art and Globalization / edited by James Elkins, Zhivka Valiavicharska, and Alice Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elkins, James, 1955- editor.

Kim, Alice, editor.

Valiavicharska, Zhivka, editor.

Series:

Stone art theory institutes (Series) ; Volume 1.

The Stone art theory institutes ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization.

Postcolonialism and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, political economy, sociology, and anthropology. Art and Globalization brings political and cultural theorists together with writers and historians concerned specifically with the visual arts in order to test the limits of the conceptualization of the global in art.Among the major writers on contemporary international art represented in this book are Rasheed Araeen, Joaquín Barriendos, Susan Buck-Morss, John Clark, Iftikhar Dadi, T. J. Demos, Néstor García Canclini, Charles Green, Suman Gupta, Harry Harootunian, Michael Ann Holly, Shigemi Inaga, Fredric Jameson, Caroline Jones, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Anthony D. King, Partha Mitter, Keith Moxey, Saskia Sassen, Ming Tiampo, and C. J. W.-L. Wee.Art and Globalization is the first book in the Stone Art Theory Institutes Series. The five volumes, each on a different theoretical issue in contemporary art, build on conversations held in intensive, weeklong closed meetings. Each volume begins with edited and annotated transcripts of those meetings, followed by assessments written by a wide community of artists, scholars, historians, theorists, and critics. The result is a series of well-informed, contentious, open-ended dialogues about the most difficult theoretical and philosophical problems we face in rethinking the arts today. -- Jacket.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Series Preface

First Introduction

Second Introduction

The Seminars

1. The national situation

2. Translation

3. The prehistory of globalization

4. Hybridity

5. Temporality

6. Postcolonial narratives

7. Neoliberalism

8. Four failures of the seminars

9. Universality

Assessments

Globalism/Globalization

Letter on globalization

Hybridization and the geopolitics of art

The oxymoron of global art

Circulate, but without differences!

Academic difficulties with “convergence” : globalization and contemporary art

Art, globalization, and imperialism

Narratives of belonging: on the relation of the art institution and the changing nation-state

Originality, universality, and other modernist myths

Contemporary art, “contemporaneity,” and world art history

Speaking of modern and contemporary asian art

A distant view

Globalization and transnational modernism

Art history and architecture’s aporia

So what might be solved here?

Perspectives on scale: From the atomic to the universal

A remark on globalization in (east) Central Europe

Globalization and (contemporary) art

Thinking through shards of china

In and out of the local

What’s wrong with global art?

global art history and transcultural studies

looking for something

nomadic territories and times

Dead parrot society

Geoaesthetic hierarchies: geography, geopolitics, global art, and coloniality

Afterword

Notes on the contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271074412

0271074418

9780271072258

0271072253

OCLC:

966803319