Contemporary art : 1989 to the present / edited by Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumbadze, Alexander Blair, 1973-

Contributor:

Dumbadze, Alexander Blair, 1973-

Hudson, Suzanne.

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

"An integrated account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; A User's Guide to Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present; 1 The Contemporary and Globalization; Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials; "Our" Contemporaneity?; Ab-original: Contemporaneity and the Origins of Art; The Art-World Considers "the contemporary"; The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now!; 2 Art after Modernism and Postmodernism; Elite Art in an Age of Populism; "Of Adversity we Live!"; Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China; 3 Formalism

Form StrugglesPolemics; Łódź; Multiple Ironies; Generational Contracts; Form Incorporating Ironies; Formalism Redefined; The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global; 4 Medium Specificity; The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art; Media Specificity in Context; Around '89; Recollecting (Media) History; Open End; Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form; Specificity; 5 Art and Technology; Test Sites: Fabrication; Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention; Conceptual Art 2.0; Platforms; Nodes and Nets; Conceptual Art 2.0; 6 Biennials

In Defense of BiennialsCurating in Heterogeneous Worlds; Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience; Trajectories of Experience; Philosophies; 7 Participation; Participation; The Ripple Effect: "Participation" as an Expanded Field; Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art; 8 Activism; Activism; Knit Dissent; Craft Kills; Contemporary War/Craft; Labor, Politics, Gender; Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics; Plenitude?; Time-out?; Plugs and Sockets?; Protagonist?; World?; Acts?; Storytellers?; Significance?; Time?; 9 Agency

Participation in Art: 10 ThesesFusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference; Indefinite Postponements; Catholics; Conspirateurs Professionnels; Atheist Choir Boys; Strategic Essentialism; Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life; 10 The Rise of Fundamentalism; Monotheism à la Mode; Return of the Toad; Iconoclasm: A Modernology; The Profanations of Art; Erasures; Freedom's Just Another Word; Protest Scene; The Fundamental Right; Consensus Overruling Democracy; Who Speaks Thus?

On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art11 Judgment; Judgment's Troubled Objects; A Producer's Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go; 1; 2; 3; 4; After Criticism; 12 Markets; Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market; Introduction; The Rise of the Art Fair, the Internet, and the Auction Houses; Globalization and its Limits; Commercialization; The Limits of "Hostile Worlds"; Three Perspectives on the Market; Untitled; 13 Art Schools and the Academy; Lifelong Learning; Hyper School; Amateur Institutions; Professional Amateurs; School as Form; Before and After

Art without Institutions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283960618

1283960613

9781118298893

1118298896

9781118298886

1118298888

OCLC:

823388934