The global contemporary art world. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University.
• Authors: Harris, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
• Contents: About the Author vii Introduction: “Global, ” “Contemporary, ” “Art, ” “World” 1 Entering the Maze 1 Modernity, Contemporary Art and Globalization 7 Five Asian Centers Within the Global Contemporary Art World 15 Global Crash, Crises and the Art World 20 Contemporary Art in the Friezer 25 1 Doing the Business: Producing Consumption in the Hong Kong Art World 35 Hong Kong Gets the Art Basel Treatment 35 Offshore Art Business in the Global Neoliberal Capitalist Economy 39 Combined and Uneven Development in the Hong Kong Art World 45 Hong Kong’s Art World Inside and Outside China 52 2 New Media Art and Cultural Globalism in South Korea 65 The Chic of Global “New Media Art” 65 Contemporary Art as Global Cultural Diplomacy 69 “Glocal Video”: Conventions and Critiques 73 Culture, Contemporaneity and the Postcolonial Artwork 76 The “Real DMZ Project”: Conflict Art in the Korean Peninsula 80 Contemporary Art Across Global Asia 85 3 Globalizing Indian Contemporary Art: The Biennial as Rhetorical Form 95 The Kochi Biennale Big Sell 96 Kochi as a Global Venue 99 Art at Kochi: Liberal Pluralism Versus Social Engagement with Globalization? 102 The Highs and Lows of Art, Media and Kochi Biennale Capital 108 Utopian Rhetoric in Contemporary Art at the Kochi Biennale 113 4 Social Reproduction of Contemporary Art in the People’s Republic of China: Higher Education and the Branding of “Contemporary Chinese Art” 127 Art and Design Education as a Globalization Process 127 Changing Identifications in Art and Design Education in China 132 Contemporary Chinese Art Marketed for Global Consumption 136 Chinese Art and the World Art System 141 5 Contemporary Art and Post?-National Identities in the State of Palestine 155 “Palestine is Open for Business”! 155 Grounding the Culture Industry in Palestine 158 Palestinian Museums?-of?-art?-in?-waiting 162 The “NGO?-ization” of the Contemporary Art World in the State of Palestine 167 Concrete into Dust 172 6 Conclusion: Motifs of Global Fracture in the Art Of Bashir Makhoul and Wang Guofeng 181 Re?-Entering the Maze 181 In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni 185 Utopian Photo?-Mythologies 188 Aesthetic and Social Implications of Digital Photography 191 Aesthetic and Social Implications of Digital Technology 194 Selected Bibliography 201 Index 217
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 232 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 701/.03; Art -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- 21st century; Art and society -- Asia -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118339084; 1118339088; 9781118288917; 1118288912; 9781118338513; 1118338510; 9781118339091; 1118339096
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-2015) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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