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Author:   Zoya Kocur (New York University, USA) ,  Simon Leung (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.107kg
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9781444338577

ISBN 10:   1444338579
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   10 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Text, Figure, and Plate Credits viii How To Use this Book xvi Notes on Contributors xix Introduction 1 Part I The Field of Contemporary Art 7 1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990) 13 Pierre Bourdieu 2 When Form Has Become Attitude – And Beyond (1994) 21 Thierry de Duve 3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997) 34 Miwon Kwon 4 Biennials without Borders? (2009) 56 Chin-Tao Wu 5 Periodising Contemporary Art (2009) 64 Alexander Alberro 6 Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 72 Jacques Rancière Part II Practices and Models/Rethinking Form and Medium 87 7 A Note on Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 (1989) 94 Benjamin H. D. Buchloh 8 Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness (2000) 102 David Joselit 9 Informe without Conclusion (1996) 118 Rosalind Krauss 10 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens 131 Liz Kotz 11 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994) 146 Andrea Fraser 12 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2003) 153 Grant Kester 13 Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (2004) 166 Claire Bishop Part III Culture/Identities/Political Agency 195 14 The War on Culture (1990) 203 Carole S. Vance 15 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (2002) 211 Douglas Crimp 16 Architecture of the Evicted (1990) 220 Rosalyn Deutsche 17 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993) 235 Judith Butler 18 Looking for Trouble (1993) 252 Kobena Mercer 19 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993) 263 Charles A. Wright, Jr 20 Haunted TV (1992) 280 Avital Ronell 21 The Architecture of Porn: Museum, Urban Detritus, and Cinematic Stag-rooms (2012) 289 Beatriz Preciado 22 Cultural Workers as Organic Intellectuals (2008) 299 Chantal Mouffe Part IV Postcolonial Critiques 309 23 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1993) 314 Gerardo Mosquera 24 In the “Heart of Darkness” (1993) 322 Olu Oguibe 25 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996) 329 Jean Fisher 26 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: Or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004) 338 Lee Weng Choy 27 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991) 354 Trinh T. Minh-Ha 28 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998) 371 Wu Hung Part V Art Subjects/Historical Subjects 381 29 Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology (2008) 388 Marina Gržinić 30 Miming the Master: Boy-Things, Bad Girls, and Femmes Vitales (1996) 395 Mary Kelly 31 Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Bare Life’ and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 416 Anthony Downey 32 The Database (2001) 435 Lev Manovich 33 For the Love of Abstraction (2008) 455 Blake Stimson 34 The Politics of Sustainability: Art and Ecology (2009) 466 T. J. Demos Appendix: Letters and Responses Contingent Factors: A Response to Claire Bishop’s “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” 486 Liam Gillick Index 498

Reviews

?Here are urgent things to read?including texts by artists who 'live within' theory. Not only analytical arguments but models for the expansion of history, politics and aesthetics. ? - Josiah McElheny, artist, New York City ?Kocur?s and Leung?s thought-provoking new anthology makes me envy today?s students and their professors. User-friendly, devoid of jargon, this volume zeroes in on issues that are at the core of contemporary art practices, offering a view of the current state of theory, and of the interrelation between art and theory, that is both synthetic and chronological. I cannot imagine a better guide to navigate through all the transformations art has gone through since 1980 in response to those of the world at large. This anthology is a delight, and an immense service to the field of contemporary studies.? - Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study

Author Information

Zoya Kocur is an independent scholar based in New York. She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the former Associate Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her publications include Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology (2011) and, as co-editor, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (1996). Simon Leung is an artist based in New York and Los Angeles, and Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, where he heads the New Genres area. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, and the Guangzhou Triennial. 

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