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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title page
Copyright page
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Globalization and Contemporary Art: A Convergence of Peoples and Ideas
What is Globalization?
Contemporary Art Studied as a Global Phenomenon
Structure, Sequence and Concepts
Part 1: Institutions
Introduction
1 Real Time and Real Time at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Beyond the Limitations of Borders”
Simmel and Intifada
Re:Real Time
Growth, Change, Uncertainty
Growth, Change, Uncertainty, Deconstructed
Growth, Change, Uncertainty, Reconstructed
Moving On
2 Peddling Time When Standing Still
Now is the Time
Killing Time
Battling for the Underfoot of Time
Witnesses Who Know Too Much
Fleshing Time
Descenders
Coda: Indigenes and Exiles
3 Homogeneity or Individuation?
Death by Homogenization
Recognition
Ownership
Reclamation
Response
4 Museums in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity
Epistemic and Aesthetic Disobedience: On Modernity/Coloniality and the Decolonial Option
Museums, Accumulation of Meaning and Accumulation of Money
The Role of Museums in a Corporate Oriented World and the Decolonial Option
What is Fred Wilson up to?
Fred Wilson and the Decolonial Option
5 Africus Johannesburg Biennale 1995
Introduction
Transition Stalled
Politics of Representation
Conclusion
Part 2: Formations
Introduction
6 Post-Crisis
The Crisis
The Urban Change
The High Culture Tour
The Rupture of 2001
Art’s Collectivization
7 Evolution within the Revolution
The 1920s: The Vanguardia and Afrocubanismo
Afro-Cuban Collectives, 1975 to 1985
Collectives Take to the Streets, 1984–1990
The 1990s and Beyond
Conclusion
8 Ka Muhe’e, He i’a Hololua
“Traditional” Kanaka Maoli Culture and Art
Colonization, Resistance and the Emergence of Kanaka Maoli Art
Joseph Kaho’oluhi Nawahi: Kanaka Maoli “Artist”
Kanaka Maoli Art: A “Fish” that Swims in Two Directions
Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art: A Journey for Equity, Access and Understanding
Conclusion
9 Aboriginal Cosmopolitans
Cosmopolitans or Victims?
Age of Fire
The Age of Water
10 Working to Learn Together
Introduction
Specific Groups
Part 3: Means and Forces of Production
Introduction
11 The Two Economies of World Art
World Art
The Art Pyramid
Free or Equal?
The Two Economies
12 The Spectacle and Its Others
Collisions: Economic Immigrants and Popular Culture post America’s 9/11
Ideologies: Manual Labor, Immaterial Labor, and the Screen
Histories: Local Struggles, Global Defeats
Complicities: What Extreme Conditions of Labor Can Do for You
Risks: Art, Labor, Knowledge, and Social Relations in Transnational Space
For, and About, Now
13 Cultural Mercantilism
New York, 1958
Modernism and Imperialism
Cultural Mercantilism
14 Audiovisionaries of the Network Planet
Part 4: Identifications
Introduction
15 Contemporary Asian Art and the West
16 World Pictures: Globalization and Visual Culture
Scholium
17 Leaves of Grass and Real Allegory
18 Collaboration in Art and Society
The Global Need for Collaboration
Four Characteristics of Collaborative Practice
Mediation and the Emergence of the New
Conclusion
Part 5: Forms
Introduction
19 Globalization Questions and Contemporary Art’s Answers
20 Political Islam and the Time of Contemporary Art
Eating Grass (2003)
The Cave (2004)
Read (2007)
21 Displaced Models
22 White Man Got No Dreaming
23 The Discourse of (L)imitation
“Japan’s Glory Upheld by Imitators”
The Historical Contexts of the Imitation Discourse
“Similar yet Dissimilar”: Group “I” vs. Oldenburg vs. Sekine
Part 6: Reproduction
Introduction
24 Art and Postcolonial Society
25 Why Art History is Global
Disciplines that Might Help Understand Contemporary Art
An Overview of the Recent Literature
Two Arguments Regarding Art History
Conclusion
26 The Agency of the Historian in the Construction of National Identity in Colombian Architecture
A Necessary Biographical Excursus
Architecture According to the History Book
Architecture Outside the Book: Unwritten Histories
27 Aboriginal Art and Australian Modernism
28 Gesturing No(w)here
The Local is the Global
The Global is the Local
Becoming Common
Part 7: Organization
Introduction
29 The Emergence of Powerhouse Dealers in Contemporary Art
The Castelli Factor
Museum Quality
The Circulation of Contemporary Art
Twenty-Five Power Dealers of Contemporary Art
Post-Gagosian
30 The Art Market in Transition, the Global Economic Crisis, and the Rise of Asia
31 Global Contemporary?
Vilnius, Lithuania: The Black Market Worlds Community (Club)
From the Second World to New Lithuania
Hyper-identity: Designing the Shanghai Biennale
Contemporary Art
Institutional Concepts and Venues
Claiming History
Cosmopolitan Contemporary Art
32 “Institutionalized Globalization,” Contemporary Art, and the Corporate Gulag in Chile
The Guggenheim Museum in New York versus the Museo de la Solidaridad Chile
The Censorship of Art in Chile by Military Forces Allied with the Guggenheim Museum’s Board of Trustees
The Introduction of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Chile by the Military Junta
Reflections on Neoliberalism, Globalization, and International Art Exhibits
33 Culture, Neoliberal Development, and the Future of Progressive Politics in Southeastern Europe
Select Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
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