Selected writings. Volume 2 : curating the postcolonial condition / Okwui Enwezor ; edited by Terry Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enwezor, Okwui, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Terry (Terry E.), editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, African.

Arts, American.

Arts and society.

Arts--Political aspects--Africa.

Arts.

Arts--Political aspects--United States.

Postcolonialism and the arts.

African diaspora in art.

Curatorship--Political aspects.

Curatorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 528 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Curating the postcolonial condition

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the "star curators" who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. In addition to the large-scale exhibits he curated, such as the 2nd Johannesberg Biennial, he worked as an art critic, art historian, theorist of the postcolonial and public educator. Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition includes seventeen essays that appeared in exhibition catalogs, art journals, interviews with artists, art reviews, curatorial statements, historical studies (especially of African photography), and book chapters written between 2006 and 2020. These texts show Enwezor striving to fulfil the second of the two main ambitions that drove his career: to build on what he called a "New African Art Discourse" (profiled in volume 1) to enable a critical, diasporic imagining of postcoloniality to become pervasive within global art discourse. They are evidence that his writings matched his exhibitions in fulfilling this goal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The unhomely : phantom scenes in global society (2006)

Place-making or in the "wrong place" : contemporary art and the postcolonial condition (2008)

Archive fever : photography between history and the monument (2008)

The subversion of realism : likeness, resemblance, and invented lives in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's postportrait paintings (2010)

Text, subtext, intertext : painting, language, and signifying in the work of Glenn Ligon (2011)

Intense proximity : concerning the disappearance of distance (2012)

From screen to space : projection and reanimation in the early work of Steve McQueen (2012)

Rise and fall of apartheid : photography and the bureaucracy of everyday life (2013)

On the aesthetic and political language of art : a conversation between Kendell Geers and William Kentridge. (2013)

The state of things (2015)

World platforms, exhibiting adjacency, and the surplus value of art (2015)

The judgment of art : postwar and artistic worldliness (2016)

Mappa mundi : Frank Bowling's cognitive abstraction (2017)

El gran espectáculo : Jean-Michel Basquiat, modernity, modernism (2018)

The wreck of utopia : alienation and disalienation in John Akomfrah's postcolonial cinema (2018)

Landings : Okwui Enwezor in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni (2019)

Grief and grievance : art and mourning in America (2020)

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Enwezor, Okwui. Selected writings Volume 2.

ISBN:

9781478060574

1478060573

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