Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization: A Transregional Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367490737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str.

Octavian Esanu

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Introduction (Octavian Esanu);  Part I;  1. Towards a Historical Understanding of Post-Soviet Presentism (Angela Harutyunyan);  2. The Long-Lasting Present: Art, Duration, and Contemporaneity (Pedro Erber);  3. Periodizing Latin American Art Since the 1960s (Karen Benezra);  4. Neue Östeuropäische Kunst: The Global Contemporary and the Eastern European Retrocontemporary (Ivana Bago);  5. Art Form and Nation Form: Contemporary Art and the Postnational Condition (Octavian Esanu);  6. Three Questions for Terry Smith: Peripherality, Postmodernity, Multiplicity – Reconceiving the Origins of Contemporary Art (Interview with Terry Smith, with Octavian Esanu);  Part II;  Case Study 1: Nove Tendencije 2 [New Tendencies 2], Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1963 (Ivana Bago);  Case Study 2: Rabinec Studio: The Commodification of Art in Late Socialist Hungary, 1982–83 (Kristóf Nagy);  Case Study 3: The 3rd Floor Cultural Movement, Yerevan 1987–1994 (Angela Haratyunyan);  Case Study 4: The First Sanayeh Plastic Arts Meeting, Ashkal Alwan Beirut 1995 (Natasha Gasparian);  Case Study 5: CarbonART 96 and The 6th Kilometer, SCCA Chișinău 1996 (Octavian Esanu);  Case Study 6: Meeting Point, SCCA Sarajevo 1997 (Amila Puzicì);  Case Study 7: Khoj International Artists’ Workshop, Khoj International Artists’ Association, Modinagar 1997 (Sabih Ahmed and Nida Ghouse);  Case Study 8: Janja Žvegelj: Squash, Škuc Gallery Ljubljana 1998 (Tevž Logar and Vladimir Vidmar);  Case Study 9: Al-Nitaq Festival of Art, Cairo 2000 and 2001 (Dina A. Mohamed)

O autorze

Octavian Esanu is an assistant professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Curator of AUB Art Galleries.