Selected Writings, Volume 2
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Selected Writings, Volume 2

Curating the Postcolonial Condition, Volume 2

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Selected Writings, Volume 2

Curating the Postcolonial Condition, Volume 2

About this book

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta 11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific critic, essayist, and theorist. Selected Writings—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Enwezor's most influential and foundational works. Spanning a quarter-century, these selections reflect the depth and breadth of Enwezor's writing and its role in his tireless efforts to decolonize the art world. Volume 2, Curating the Postcolonial Condition, includes seventeen essays written between 2006 and 2019. Drawn from exhibition catalogs, art journals, interviews with artists, art reviews, curatorial statements, historical studies, and book chapters, these texts show him striving to fulfil the second main ambition that drove his career: enabling a critical, diasporic imagining of postcoloniality that would become pervasive within global art discourse. Demonstrating that his writing helped fulfill this goal, this collection reaffirms Enwezor's status as a transformational figure in the global contemporary art world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Magnificent Scale / Terry Smith
  6. 1. The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society (2006)
  7. 2. Place-Making or in the “Wrong Place”: Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition (2008)
  8. 3. Archive Fever: Photography between History and the Monument (2008)
  9. 4. The Subversion of Realism: Likeness, Resemblance, and Invented Lives in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Postportrait Paintings (2010)
  10. 5. Text, Subtext, Intertext: Painting, Language, and Signifying in the Work of Glenn Ligon (2011)
  11. 6. Intense Proximity: Concerning the Disappearance of Distance (2012)
  12. 7. From Screen to Space: Projection and Reanimation in the Early Work of Steve McQueen (2012)
  13. 8. Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (2013)
  14. 9. On the Aesthetic and Political Language of Art: A Conversation between Kendell Geers and William Kentridge (2013)
  15. 10. The State of Things (2015)
  16. 11. World Platforms, Exhibiting Adjacency, and the Surplus Value of Art (2015)
  17. 12. The Judgment of Art: Postwar and Artistic Worldliness (2016)
  18. 13. Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling’s Cognitive Abstraction (2017)
  19. 14. El Gran EspectĂĄculo: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Modernity, Modernism (2018)
  20. 15. The Wreck of Utopia: Alienation and Disalienation in John Akomfrah’s Postcolonial Cinema (2018)
  21. 16. Landings: Okwui Enwezor in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni (2019)
  22. 17. Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (2020)
  23. Bibliography: Published Writings of Okwui Enwezor / Compiled by Ilhan Ozan
  24. Index