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Antinomies of art and culture : modernity, postmodernity, contemporaneity

Author: Terry Smith; Okwui Enwezor; Nancy Condee
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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Offers an inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. This book argues that predictions that post-modernity would emerge as a global  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Antinomies of art and culture.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
(OCoLC)733974946
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Terry Smith; Okwui Enwezor; Nancy Condee
ISBN: 9780822341864 0822341867 9780822342038 0822342030
OCLC Number: 209335273
Description: xviii, 437 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The contemporaneity question / Terry Smith --
Contemporaneity between modernity and postmodernity / Antonio Negri --
A cultural conjuncture in India: art into documentary / Geeta Kapur --
Some rotten shoots from the seeds of time / Rosalind Krauss --
The topology of contemporary art / Boris Groys --
On the contingency of modernity and the persistence on canons / Monica Amor --
Politics of flexible subjectivity: the event work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik --
Double modernity, para-modernity / Jonathan Hay --
"Particular time, specific space, my truth": total modernity in Chinese contemporary art / Gao Minglu --
The perils of unilateral power: neomodernist metaphors and the new global order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie --
Analogue, 1998-2007 --
introduced by Helen Molesworth / Zoe Leonard --
The postcolonial constellation: contemporary art in a state of permanent transition / Okwui Enwezor --
From emigration to e-migration: contemporaneity and the former second world / Nancy Condee --
Aftermath: value and violence in contemporary South African art / Colin Richards --
A case of being "contemporary": conditions, spheres, and narratives of contemporary Chinese art / Wu Hung --
Emancipation or attachments? The different futures of politics / Bruno Latour --
The return of the sixties in contemporary art and criticism / James Meyer --
Introduction to infor-aesthetics / Lev Manovich --
The giftshop at the end of history / McKenzie Wark --
Spatial aesthetics: rethinking the contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis.
Responsibility: edited by Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor, and Nancy Condee.
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"This remarkable orchestration of voices, visualities, and political visions lays bare the antinomies and contradictions that haunt the sovereign claims of globalization. Each consummate essay is an Read more...

 
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