The Stone Art Theory Institutes. Art and Globalization / / ed. by Zhivka Valiavicharska, Alice Kim, James Elkins.

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• MitwirkendeR: Araeen, Rasheed,; Bakoš, Ján,; Barlow, Tani,; Barriendos, Joaquín,; Berry, Chris,; Canclini, Néstor García,; Clark, John,; Dadi, Iftikhar,; Demos, T. J.,; Elkins, James,; Gabara, Esther,; Gopnik, Blake,; Green, Charles,; Grzinic, Marina,; Gupta, Suman,; Harris, Jonathan,; Jarzombek, Mark,; Jones, Caroline A.,; King, Anthony D.,; Leitzel, Karl Eric,; Loeb, Carolyn,; Mitter, Partha,; Möntmann, Nina,; Pai, Hyungmin,; Sassen, Saskia,; Tiampo, Ming,; Tomii, Reiko,; Valiavicharska, Zhivka,; Wee, C. J. W.-L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Elkins, James,; Kim, Alice,; Valiavicharska, Zhivka,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 illustration

The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcolonial theory...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Preface
• First Introduction
• Second Introduction
• The Seminars
• 1. The national situation
• 2. Translation
• 3. The prehistory of globalization
• 4. Hybridity
• 5. Temporality
• 6. Postcolonial narratives
• 7. Neoliberalism
• 8. Four failures of the seminars
• 9. Universality
• Assessments
• Globalism/Globalization
• Letter on globalization
• Letter on globalization
• Hybridization and the geopolitics of art
• The oxymoron of global art
• Circulate, but without differences!
• Academic difficulties with “convergence” : globalization and contemporary art
• Art, globalization, and imperialism
• Narratives of belonging: on the relation of the art institution and the changing nation-state
• Originality, universality, and other modernist myths
• Contemporary art, “contemporaneity,” and world art history
• Speaking of modern and contemporary asian art
• A distant view
• Globalization and transnational modernism
• Art history and architecture’s aporia
• So what might be solved here?
• Perspectives on scale: From the atomic to the universal
• A remark on globalization in (east) Central Europe
• Globalization and (contemporary) art
• Thinking through shards of china
• In and out of the local
• What’s wrong with global art?
• global art history and transcultural studies
• looking for something
• nomadic territories and times
• Dead parrot society
• Geoaesthetic hierarchies: geography, geopolitics, global art, and coloniality
• Afterword
• Notes on the contributors
• Index