Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780415469203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str.

Marsha Meskimmon

Opis

'Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination' offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation & art. It explores the role of art in conceiving & reconfiguring the political, ethical & social landscape of our time.

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 Theoryat 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).