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'A wonderfully erudite, powerfully argued, and fascinatingly researched book.' -- Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh

'A wonderfully erudite, powerfully argued, and fascinatingly researched book.'

A wonderfully erudite, powerfully argued, and fascinatingly researched book. Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Edinburgh

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Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK. His research has a transatlantic scope, bringing together the politics of historiography in art history with the philosophy of aesthetics, and new approaches to materiality and geographical space in the social sciences. He is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester University Press, 2011) and has edited or co-edited four books: Triennial City: Localising Asian Art (Cornerhouse 2014), Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning (Berghahn 2015), Disturbing Pasts: Memories, Controversies and Creativity (Manchester University Press 2017), and Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester University Press 2017). Together with Paul Wood and Charles Harrison he is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology: Art in Theory: The West in the World (Wiley). A former long-standing member of the editorial board of the journal Third Text, and founding editor of the Open Arts Journal, from 2014-2015 he occupied the inaugural position of Kindler Chair in Global Contemporary Art at Colgate University, New York, and has held visiting roles at UC Berkeley, Yale, and the University of Oxford. He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in the History of Art.

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