Antinomies of Art and Culture by Okwui Enwezor

Antinomies of Art and Culture by Okwui Enwezor

Offers an inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. This book argues that predictions that post-modernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated.

“Anyone wishing to assess the state of contemporary art and its relation to institutions, politics, social movements, and indeed, the entire project of imagining and naming the world at the present moment will find this brilliant book essential and disturbing readingIt offers no grand synthesis but provides a shattered mosaic of the crucial elements that will have to be assembled by any future historian looking back on the early twenty-first century.”—W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
“This is a provocative and indeed challenging assessment of the relation between ‘art’ and ‘culture’ (in scare quotes because both concepts are questioned) in the post-post-modernist moment. The essays successfully reposition discussion in a genuinely worldwide perspective, redefine modernism on a global scale, and push avant-garde thinking in new directions.”—Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
“This remarkable orchestration of voices, visualities, and political visions lays bare the antinomies and contradictions that haunt the sovereign claims of globalization. Each consummate essay is an artful reflection on the complex resistances and revisions that emanate from cultural practices that transform the aesthetic and ethical realities of embedded and embattled localities. I warmly recommend Antinomies of Art and Culture.”—Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books including The Architecture of Aftermath and Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America.

Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, including the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998–2002), and Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.

Nancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (forthcoming) and editor of Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia.

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ISBN 13	9780822342038
ISBN 10	0822342030
Title	Antinomies of Art and Culture
Author	Okwui Enwezor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2009-01-16
Number of pages	456
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