Globalizing Contemporary Art

The Art World's New Internationalism

Lotte Philipsen

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9788779346079
• eBook ISBN:
  9788779343481
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Contemporary Art

Today, contemporary art is a global phenomenon. Biennales, museums, art fairs, galleries, auction houses, academies and audiences for contemporary visual art are all institutions whose presence on a global scale has widened tremendously during the past two decades. Thus, by including contemporary art from non-Western regions, these traditional Western art institutions have not only broadened their scope to a greater extent, but have also been challenged themselves by the new cultural, economic and media world order of globalization. How contemporary art is made 'international' is the subject of this book, tracing as it does developments during the past two decades, while focusing particularly on the mechanisms of 'globality' which are at work in the art world today. The book critically investigates fundamental questions like: What is 'New Internationalism' in contemporary art, and how it affected the art world? How does New Internationalism relate to concepts like ethnicity, aesthetics, standard art history, and new media? And how is New Internationalism, rather paradoxically, furthered to a greater extent by global capitalism than it is by seemingly progressive art projects?

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Introduction. New Internationalism
• Chapter 1. The art of old and new internationalism
• Chapter 2. Exhibiting artistic modernism and modernity
• Chapter 3. Racial, sexual and aesthetic differences in art
• Chapter 4. New international influences
• Chapter 5. Global dimensions of contemporary art
• Chapter 6. Formally and thematically global dimensions
• Chapter 7. From art to ethnic politics
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Notes