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Antinomies of Art and Culture
Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
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Edited by:
Okwui Enwezor
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With contributions by:
Antonio Negri
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
Collection of essays by art historians and cultural theorists on what it means for art to be contemporary in the wake of postmodernism.
Author / Editor information
Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books including The Architecture of Aftermath and Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America.
Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, including the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998–2002), and Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.
Nancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (forthcoming) and editor of Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia.
Reviews
“Anyone wishing to assess the state of contemporary art and its relation to institutions, politics, social movements, and indeed, the entire project of imagining and naming the world at the present moment will find this brilliant book essential and disturbing reading. It offers no grand synthesis but provides a shattered mosaic of the crucial elements that will have to be assembled by any future historian looking back on the early twenty-first century.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
“This is a provocative and indeed challenging assessment of the relation between ‘art’ and ‘culture’ (in scare quotes because both concepts are questioned) in the post-post-modernist moment. The essays successfully reposition discussion in a genuinely worldwide perspective, redefine modernism on a global scale, and push avant-garde thinking in new directions.”—Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
“This remarkable orchestration of voices, visualities, and political visions lays bare the antinomies and contradictions that haunt the sovereign claims of globalization. Each consummate essay is an artful reflection on the complex resistances and revisions that emanate from cultural practices that transform the aesthetic and ethical realities of embedded and embattled localities. I warmly recommend Antinomies of Art and Culture.”—Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question
1 - PART 1: THE POLITICS OF TEMPORALITY
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1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity
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2. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary
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3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time
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4. The Topology of Contemporary Art
71 - PART 2 : MULTIPLE MODERNITIES
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5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons
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6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark
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7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity
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8. ‘‘Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth’’: Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art
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9. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order
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10. Analogue, 1998–2007 INTRODUCED BY HELEN MOLESWORTH
187 - PART 3: AFTERWORLDS
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11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition
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12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World
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13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art
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14. A Case of Being ‘‘Contemporary’’: Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art
290 - PART 4: COTEMPORALITIES
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15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Di√erent Futures of Politics
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16. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism
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17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics
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18. The Giftshop at the End of History
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19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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January 16, 2009
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456
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77 illustrations
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