"Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation explores the interactions between globalization and different forms of artistic practice and cultural expression. Bringing together over 25 high-profile authors from around the world, this volume addresses such questions as: What i…
"An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revol…
"An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revol…
How contemporary art is made 'international' is the subject of this book, tracing as it does developments during the past two decades, while focusing particularly on the mechanisms of 'globality' which are at work in the art world today.
Site-specific art is mushrooming across the world. This book contains an illustrated exploration of international site-specific artworks.
It may be time to forget the art world - or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read; its borders blur. In Forgetting the Art World, Pamela Lee con…
""This groundbreaking book allows the reader to appreciate the complexity and variety of cultural contacts that have shaped not only European art, but also the very idea of Europe." David O' Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." ""The questions that are engaged in …
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions.
Collection of essays by art historians and cultural theorists on what it means for art to be contemporary in the wake of postmodernism.
"In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and post-modernity, includin…
