Global Art in Local Art Worlds

Changing Hierarchies of Value

Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa, Jens Sejrup, Vibe Nielsen, Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa, Jens Sejrup, Vibe Nielsen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780367653279
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000836783
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Anthropology

This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Taking Michael Herzfeld's notion of the "global hierarchy of value" as point of departure, the volume brings together six empirical studies of the collection, circulation, classification and exhibition of objects in present-day Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Africa and Indigenous Australia in light of Europe's loss of global hegemony. Including reflections by a number of senior scholars, the chapters demonstrate that the question of valuation lies at the heart of artistic and art-institutional practices writ large – including museum practices, museum architecture, galleries, auction houses, art fairs and biennales.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Global art in local art worlds and the global hierarchy of value
• Reflection 1 Going beyond, notes on cultural valuations and spatial difference: (based on a conversation with Oscar Salemink, June 2022)
• Part 1 Tropicalism and canonization
• Part 2 Recognition and ambivalence
• Part 3 Global circulation of ideas and universality
• Part 4 Curation and authorization
• Part 5 Validation and circuits of valuation
• Part 6 Indigenous art and Indigenous cultural capital
• Afterword Agency and hierarchy in the creation of aesthetic value
• Index