Book Description:
'Globalization and Contemporary Art' is an unprecedented collection aimed at charting art since l985 as it has intersected with - and been re-envisioned by - the forces of globalizaton. This volume will provide an authoritative, accessible, comprehensive, and challenging account of the impact of globalisation upon contemporary visual art and its socio-cultural spheres of production, circulation, and consumption. 'Globalization and Contemporary Art' will be divided into 7 sections and showcase 35-50 essays by leading scholars in art history/theory, visual and museum studies and from all corners of the globalized world. Each section will be deliberately wide-ranging with a view to embracing the subject in all its fullness, diversity and unruliness - from case-studies of artists and artworks to meditations that concentrate on broader thematic, conceptual, and historiographical topics.Tackling the subject through a variety of useful analytics - forms and formations, institutions, the production of meaning, identifications, and reproduction - 'Globalization and Contemporary Art' looks to challenge the status of art history as the dominant discipline able intellectually to recognise and account for developments in visual art and 'art worlds' since the 1980s. This set of essays, hence, suggests through a variety of ways how and why such a necessary reconceptualisation should take place (and with what consequences).
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