Title Biennials, triennials, and Documenta : the exhibitions that created contemporary art / Charles Green and Anthony Gardner

Edition 1 Published Chicester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Introduction -- Why Biennials? -- Part 1. The Second Wave -- Part 2. The Politics of Legitimacy -- Part 3. Hegemony or a New Canon -- The Cultural Geography of Biennials -- Notes -- Part 1: The Second Wave -- 1: 1972: The Rise of the Star-Curator -- Introduction -- Preparation for a Walk-Through Event Structure -- "Therapy Has Changed and No Longer Encourages Copious Art Production" -- "The Most Important Exhibition of Recent Years" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: 1979: Cultural Translation, Cultural Exclusion, and the Second Wave -- Introduction: Biennials as Models for Cultural Encounters -- Founding the Sydney Biennale -- White Elephant or Red Herring? Selecting the 1979 Biennale of Sydney -- Import/Export: Sydney and São Paulo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: 1986: The South and the Edges of the Global -- Introduction: Origin Stories -- A Brief History of Southern Biennials -- The Second Bienal de La Habana -- Conclusion: The Stakes of Southern Histories -- Notes -- Part 2: The Politics of Legitimacy -- 4: 1989: Asian Biennialization -- Introduction -- Experimental Versus Traditional Art: "Traditions/Tensions" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5: 1997: Biennials, Migration, and Itinerancy -- Introduction -- Manifesta and Critical Regionalism -- Locality Fails: The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale -- By Way of Conclusion: The Emergency Biennale in Chechnya -- Notes -- Part 3: Hegemony or a New Canon -- 6: 2002: Cosmopolitanism -- Introduction -- The Five-Year Subaltern Plan -- Black Box, White Cube -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7: 2003: Delegating Authority -- Introduction -- Tirana: "Opening Up the Conversation" -- Escape -- Curating by Delegation: The 50th Venice Biennale: The Dictatorship of the Viewer -- "Counterbalance the Decadence of the Ancient City." "Outmoded Structure of National Pavilions and Theme Exhibitions" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8: 2014: Global Art Circuits -- Introduction -- The Game of Comparison and Competition -- Negotiated Inequality -- Contemporary Play Time -- Coda: 2014 -- Notes -- 9: Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- EULA Summary "Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s and the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s to the current globalization of biennials"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Art and globalization -- History -- 20th century Art and globalization -- History -- 21st century Biennials (Art fairs) -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology. Art and globalization Biennials (Art fairs) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Gardner, Anthony, 1976- author. LC no. 2015042365 ISBN 9781119212676 1119212677 9781119212669 1119212669 9781119212638 1119212634 1444336649 9781444336641

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