Description
| Product ID: | 9780367550943 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Title: | Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization |
| Subtitle: | A Transregional Perspective |
| Authors: | Author: Octavian Esanu |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, History of art, Colonialism and imperialism, Cultural studies, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics and government, Economic theory and philosophy, International economics, Political economy, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Colonialism & imperialism, Cultural studies, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics & government, Economic theory & philosophy, International economics, Political economy |
| Description: | This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." The book concerns itself with the historical conditions in which a radically new mode of artistic production, distribution, and consumption – called "contemporary art" – emerged in some countries of Eastern Europe, the post-Soviet republics of the USSR, India, Latin America, and the Middle East, following both local and broader sociopolitical processes of modernization and neoliberalization. Its main argument is that one cannot fully engage with the idea of the "global contemporary" without also paying careful attention to the particular, local, and/or national symptoms of the contemporary condition. Part I is methodological and theoretical in scope, while Part II is historical and documentary. For the latter, a number of case studies address the emergence of the category "contemporary art" in the context of Lebanon, Egypt, India, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, and Moldova. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, globalism, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-25 |
