Description
Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase or style in the history of art to another. Rather, artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world’s teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences, and its challenging complexities. Diversity—the contemporaneity of difference—not a convergence towards sameness, Smith argues, is what makes today¹s art contemporary.
Table of Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Becoming Contemporary in Euro America
Chapter 1: Late Modern Art Becomes Contemporary
Chapter 2: The Contemporary Art Boom
Part II: The Transnational Transition
Chapter 3: Russia and (East of) Europe
Chapter 4: South and Central America, the Carribean
Chapter 5: China and East Asia
Chapter 6: India, South and Southeast Asia
Chapter 7: Oceania
Chapter 8: Africa
Chapter 9: West Asia
Part III: Contemporary Concerns
Chapter 10: World Pictures: Making Art Politically
Chapter 11: Climate Change: Art and Ecology
Chapter 12: Social Media: Affects of Time
Chapter 13: Coda: Permanent Transition
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments
General Introduction: Contemporary Art in Transition
From Late Modern Art to Now
Part I: Becoming Contemporary in Euro America
Chapter 1: Late Modern Art Becomes Contemporary
Transformations in Late Modern Art: Its Contemporary Aspects
Chapter 2: The Contemporary Art Boom
The Postmodern Return to Figuration
Retro-Sensationalist Art
Remodernism in Sculpture and Photography
Spectacle Architecture as Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Becomes a Style
Part II: The Transnational Transition
Chapter 3: Russia and (East of) Europe
Russia
Late Cold War Modern Art Elsewhere (East of) Europe
After the Fall: Post-Communist Art?
Beyond “Eastern” and “Central” versus “Western” Europe
Translating the European Ideal
Chapter 4: South and Central America, the Carribean
South America
Cuba
Elsewhere in the Caribbean
Seeing the World’s Currents
Chapter 5: China and East Asia
China
Taiwan
Korea
Chapter 6: India, South and Southeast Asia
India
Pakistan
Thailand
Indonesia
The Phillippines
Chapter 7: Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Australia
Chapter 8: Africa
Modern Art in Africa
South Africa Under Apartheid
Popular Painting and Sculpture in Central Africa
Commercial to Art Photography
South Africa after Apartheid
African Art Enters the International Circuit
Chapter 9: West Asia
Iraq
Jordan
Iran
Palestine
Israel
From Hurufiyah to Contemporary Cosmopolitanism
Part III: Contemporary Concerns
Chapter 10: World Pictures: Making Art Politically
One World
Global Networks
Intervening Critically
Profiles in Shadowland
Bare Labor
Chapter 11: Climate Change: Art and Ecology
Art and Environmentalism
Crisis and Catastrophe
Collective Actions, Sustainable Solutions
Designs for Living
Experimental Geography
Imaging the Future Dystopia
Eco-Chic, Greenwashing, Spectable
Chapter 12: Social Media: Affects of Time
Mediation, Immersion, Intervention, Agency
To Be with Time is All We Ask
Chapter 13: Coda: Permanent Transition
Notes
Select Bibliography
A Directory of Selected Contemporary
Art Websites
Index
Picture Credits
Note of Thanks
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