The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials write by Panos Kompatsiaris. This book was released on 2017-03-31. The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials write by Panos Kompatsiaris. This book was released on 2017. The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
India’s Biennale Effect
India’s Biennale Effect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India’s Biennale Effect write by Robert E. D'Souza. This book was released on 2016-10-14. India’s Biennale Effect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. This book presents a close reading of the unique context of the Kochi Biennale as well as sets out a broader critical framework for understanding global, contemporary art and its effects.
Just another exhibition
Just another exhibition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just another exhibition write by Federica Martini. This book was released on 2011. Just another exhibition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta write by Anthony Gardner. This book was released on 2016-05-16. Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014 Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art
