Description |
viii, 392 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25cm |
Contents |
Contemporary cultural practice: some polemical categories / Geeta Kapur -- The Latin American origins of 'alternative modernism' / David Craven -- Reverse appropriation as nationalism in modern African art / Olu Oguibe -- Displaying authenticity and progress / Johan Lagae -- Colonial/postcolonial intersections / Zeynep Çelik -- Whose heritage? Un-settling 'the heritage', re-imagining the post-nation / Stuart Hall -- Discovering the European wild men / Roger Bartra -- 'Cowboys and' / Jimmie Durham -- Ethnicity and internationality: new British art and diaspora-based Blackness / Kobena Mercer -- Art as ethnocide: the case of Australia / Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry -- Identity: reality or fiction? / Sebastián López -- Identity and myth today / Ticio Escobar -- The voice of a Palestinian in exile / Edward Said -- The others: beyond the 'salvage' paradigm / James Clifford -- Restless hybrids / Nikas Papastergiadis -- Dancing with words and speaking with forked tongues / Jean Fisher -- Walt Disney and the double victimization of Pocahontas / Ziauddin Sardar -- Directing the real: Orapronobis against Philippine totalitarianism / Jonathan L. Beller -- The critical practice and dialectics of third cinema / Michael Wayne -- Queries for postcolonial studies / Ihab Hassan -- Signs of our time: discussion of Homi Bhabha's the location of culture / Benita Parry -- The failure of postmodernity: how Africa misunderstood the west / Denis Ekpo -- The Marco Polo syndrome / Gerardo Mosquera -- Scene and obscene / Zygmunt Bauman -- The 'new Asian museum' in the age of globalization / Rustom Bharucha -- Cybersublime: representing the unrepresentable in digital art and politics / John Byrne -- Against the double blackmail / Slavoj Žižek -- Obscene from any angle / George Ritzer |
Summary |
Collection of essays by some of the best-known critics in global art and cultural studies, together with some of the most exciting new voices to emerge over the last two decades. Covers History, Representation, Identity, Film, "Post" theory and Globalisation |
Notes |
Edited reprints from: Third text |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Arts -- Political aspects -- 20th century.
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Art and popular culture.
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Arts and society.
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Arts -- Political aspects.
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Art, Developing country -- 20th century.
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Multiculturalism in art.
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Culture.
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Author |
Sardar, Ziauddin.
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Araeen, Rasheed.
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Cubitt, Sean, 1953-
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LC no. |
2002024618 |
ISBN |
0826458505 hardback |
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0826458513 paperback |
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