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The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials

Author : Panos Kompatsiaris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317290828
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials written by Panos Kompatsiaris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.

Just another exhibition

Author : Federica Martini
Publisher : postmediabooks
ISBN 13 : 8874900600
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Just another exhibition written by Federica Martini and published by postmediabooks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta

Author : Anthony Gardner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444336657
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta written by Anthony Gardner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014 Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art

The Manifesta Decade

Author : Barbara Vanderlinden
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Manifesta Decade written by Barbara Vanderlinden and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections from curators, historians, philosophers, anthropologists, architects, and writers on the cultural and political conditions of European exhibition practice since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350375209
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe written by Nicolas Whybrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe examines five urban situations in diverse parts of Europe. Roughly tracing a central horizontal strip from the western to the eastern edges of the continent, the events and cities covered are the Folkestone Triennial, UK, Münster Sculpture Projects, Germany, the Venice Biennale, Italy, Belgrade's Mikser Festival, Serbia and the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey. Whybrow establishes how public artworks operate in these contexts as part of a complex prescribed by the format of the biennial event. This means drawing out the extent to which biennial events seek to engage with the complexity of the city in question, in a manner that takes into account local socio-cultural ecologies, while also positioning the event itself within a globalist art world perspective. The book also considers how sited installations - which are very varied in form, as a reflection of a new, eclectic urban aesthetic - tell a particular story of a city, while the regional diversity of these selected cities and events in turn tells a composite story of European difference at a moment of high tension, centring on matters of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union"--

Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350166987
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe written by Nicolas Whybrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its examination of five quite different art events in cities across Europe, Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe offers a compelling exploration of how public art takes place in the modern city. Roughly tracing a central horizontal trajectory from the western to the eastern edges of the continent, Nicolas Whybrow considers the Folkestone Triennial in the UK, Sculpture Projects Münster in Germany, the Venice Biennale in Italy, Belgrade's Mikser Festival in Serbia and the Istanbul Biennial in Turkey. Writing within the context of a thirty-year international 'biennial boom', Whybrow interrogates the extent to which biennial events and their artworks seek to engage with the socio-cultural and political complexity of cities, in particular the work that is involved in this relationship. With its focus on Europe, he also tells a composite story of continental difference at a moment of high tension, centering on issues of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union.

The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World

Author : Stephen Naylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351062085
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World written by Stephen Naylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial and visual representation of contemporary art presented at the Venice Biennale and incorporating the politics behind national selections, this monograph provides insights into a range of important elements of the global art industry. Areas analysed include national cultural trends and strategies, the inversion of the peripheral to the centre stage of the Biennale, geopolitics in gaining exhibition space at the Venice Biennale, curatorial practices for contemporary art presentation and artistic trends that seek to deal with major economic, cultural, religious and environmental issues emerging from non-European art centres. This monograph will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies and Asia-Pacific cultural history.

Contemporary Art

Author : Alexander Dumbadze
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118298896
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art written by Alexander Dumbadze and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary art since 1989 Each topic is prefaced by an introduction on current discussions in the field and investigated by three essays, each shedding light on the subject in new and contrasting ways Topics include: globalization, formalism, technology, participation, agency, biennials, activism, fundamentalism, judgment, markets, art schools, and scholarship International in scope, bringing together over forty of the most important voices in the field, including Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, David Joselit, Michelle Kuo, Raqs Media Collective, and Jan Verwoert A stimulating guide that will encourage polemical interventions and foster critical dialogue among both students and art aficionados

Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate

Author : Rafal Niemojewski
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848223882
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate written by Rafal Niemojewski and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as contemporary biennials. Since the mid-1980s biennials have been instrumental in shaping curating as an autonomous practice. These exhibitions are also said to have provided increased visibility for certain types of new art practices, notably those that are socially and politically committed, research-based and site-specific, and to have undermined some of the more traditional art media, such as painting, drawing or sculpture. They have been responsible for substantially reshaping the contemporary art world and disrupting the existing value chain of the art market, which now relies on biennials as much as it does on major museums' acquisitions and exhibitions. Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation, deftly unpicks the critical discussion and controversy surrounding contemporary biennials. Branded by some critics as showcases of neo-liberalism run amok, in which culture has become synonymous with the dollar-generating leisure industry, biennials have also been associated with the production of monumental artworks which are both highly consumable and photogenic (Instagrammable). The exhibitions we love to hate? This engaging publication makes an essential contribution to a fascinating cultural debate.

The Global Work of Art

Author : Caroline A. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629174X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Global Work of Art written by Caroline A. Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major history of the glamorous art biennial. Biennials have proliferated across the globe since the end of the Cold War and have now stabilized at about 200 a year. While this quintessentially contemporary form has significant roots in the world expositions of the 19th century, Jones argues that the biennial is also the platform for an important new aesthetic shift. Moving away from a focus on visual looking in the mid 20th century, the art world today embraces experience: art fairs give the feel of closeness and spaciousness, crowds, and they engage all our senses, even taste. Jones argues that the dominance of installation art and the simultaneous rise of biennialsor recurring art fairsneed to be examined as joint phenomenamutually reinforcing and linked to specific geo-political and aesthetic conditions. From the rise of tourism to the flows of art commerce, Jones hatches a new way to track the development of international art fairs in nearly every corner of the globe: from the early world fairs of London, Paris, Chicago, and New York to art fairs proper in Venice, Sao Paulo, Havana, Berlin, Lyon, and Beijing, as well as Kassel s Documenta, Whitney Biennial, and moreall explained through a rapidly evolving aesthetics of experience that has never, until now, been addressed in such a substantial way."

Art, Money, Parties

Author : Jonathan P. Harris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237396
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Art, Money, Parties written by Jonathan P. Harris and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the phenomenally successful new Tate Modern to the DIA: Beacon and Liverpool Biennial, contemporary visual art seems more than ever enmeshed in prominent public institutions and new forms of patronage, whether public commissions or corporate sponsorships. In Art, Money, Parties, renowned figures from the art world--including artists, dealers, and gallery owners--join scholars to consider these new institutional faces of contemporary art, their influence on art and artists, and how they affect the future of art. The essays in this collection, which originated at a conference organized by Tate Liverpool and the University of Liverpool, offer frequently contentious positions on the role of new institutions and patronage in the world of contemporary art. For example, while Liverpool Biennial director Lewis Biggs delivers a fairly optimistic assessment of the state of contemporary art, scholar Paul Usherwood unleashes a scathing critique of recent public art commissions. From opposing perspectives, gallery owner Sadie Coles reviews the history of her own involvement in the art world during the 1990s, and artist Stewart Home offers a sharply contrasting view of the value of the art produced in that decade. Rather than an attempt to craft a consensus, though, Art, Money, Parties is instead an effort to map out the position of--and possibilities for--contemporary art in a period of growing public sponsorship and attention. The vibrant, growing interest in contemporary art--evidenced by the success of the institutions under consideration--makes Art, Money, Parties a timely and indispensable contribution to any debate on the present and future of art.

What Is Contemporary Art?

Author : Terry E. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226764311
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book What Is Contemporary Art? written by Terry E. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is going.

The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials

Author : Panos Kompatsiaris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials written by Panos Kompatsiaris and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Curated in China

Author : Monica Naso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003836917
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Curated in China written by Monica Naso and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narratives to explore scales and perspectives and the layered spatial and political agency that an ephemeral event – the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture – has gradually established in the city between 2005 and 2019. Encapsulating Shenzhen’s ambitions as a world-class city, the Biennale aims to actively build a relationship between architecture and socio-spatial issues as a device to not only investigate the city’s hypertrophic development, but also manipulate its urban fabric. The spaces transformed by the exhibition convey visual delight and urban extravaganza; they also embody the interlocking of multiple (intellectual, corporate and institutional) actors who exploit the event in the pursuit of different goals. Everybody strolls around and enjoys the spectacle set up in the allegedly pacifying space of the exhibition; nevertheless, what lies behind – and beyond – the event? By addressing students and scholars in the fields of architecture and urban space, the book unpacks the layered frictions between a temporary event’s narrative apparatus and its physical outcomes, questioning the relationship between biennials as theoretical platforms and their agency in real urban spaces.

Whitney Biennial 2019

Author : Jane Panetta
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300242751
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Whitney Biennial 2019 written by Jane Panetta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the work of an exciting group of contemporary artists, this book reflects the trends shaping art in the United States today.

Biennials and Beyond

Author : Bruce Altshuler
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714864952
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Biennials and Beyond written by Bruce Altshuler and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents significant and pioneering exhibitions that took place between 1962 and 2002.

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Julian Stallabrass
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192806467
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction written by Julian Stallabrass and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bloodied toy soldiers, gilded shopping carts, and Lego concentration camps. Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. But away from shock tactics in the gallery, there are many unanswered questions. What is contemporary about contemporary art? What effect do politics and big business have on art? And who really runs the art world?" "Previously published as Art Incorporated, this controversial and witty Very Short Introduction is an exploration of the global art scene that will change the way you see contemporary art."--BOOK JACKET.