Contemporary Art 1989 to the Present.

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dumbadze, Alexander
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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 Struggles
  • Polemics
  • 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 Biennials
  • Curating 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 Theses
  • Fusions 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 Art
  • 11 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