Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415469197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 176 str.

Marsha Meskimmon

Opis

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes of transnational and transcultural exchange typical of the global economy. Rather, art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations  List of Plates  Introduction. Contemporary Art: At Home in a Global World   1. Foundation – Dynamic Ground   2. Threshold – Infinite Generosity  3. Passage – Transitive Affects  4. Landing – Imaginative Engagement  Afterword On Affirmative Criticality  Selected Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Dr. Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Loughborough, UK. Her research centres on the work of women artists and expanded theoretical and critical perspectives on aesthetics, history and gendered subjectivity. She has authored a number of books and journal articles, including Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics (2003) and We Weren’t Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism (1999).