The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon : Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference /: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gilane Tawadros.
• Authors: Tawadros, Gilane
• Contents: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Leftovers of Translation1. But What is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge2. Extra-Extra: Interview with Raul Ortega Ayala3. Dissonant Chorus4. Shen Yuan: The Leftovers of Translation5. Voices Off: Interview with Susan Hiller Part II: The Banality of Difference6. 'We are the Martians…'7. Van Leo: Self-Portraits8. Shirani Shahbazi: The Banality of Difference9. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the Crime 10. Electrifying Eve Part III: Re-siting the City11. The Real Me12. Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting13. Alfred's Favourite Tree14. The Leopard15. Maps of Desire Part IV: Studies in a Post-colonial body16. The Revolution Stripped Bare17. Studies in a Post-colonial Body18. Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art Part V: Relocating the Remains: History and Representation19. Strangers and Barbarians: Representing Ourselves and Others20. Telling Tales: Keith Piper's Relocating the Remains21. Sweet Oblivion22. Godville: Interview with Omer Fast Part VI: Going Global23. Going Global: 4th International Istanbul Biennial24. Detonations: Jonathan Hernández and the Rongwrong series25. Modern Europeans26. Slipping Away (or Uncompliant Cartographies) Part VII: Transmission Interrupted27. Interruption in Four Acts, or Disappearing Irises, Broken-down Buses and Ceramic Citroens28. Egypt at the Venice Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed Everything 29. From Zero to Infinity: The Work of Adel Abdessemed 30. Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left 31. Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration 32. A Thousand and OneIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: Theory of art; Art forms; Art -- History -- General; Art -- Popular Culture; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Art styles not defined by date
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501353468; 1501353462
• Related ISBNs: 9781501363337
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