Antinomies of Art and Culture

Terry Smith; Okwui Enwezor; and Nancy Condee; Eds.

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In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad categories and terms such as modernity, postmodernity, globalization, and decolonization are still relevant or useful. Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images, Antinomies of Art and Culture is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment.In the volume's introduction the theorist Terry Smith argues that predictions that postmodernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Smith suggests that the various situations of decolonized Africa, post-Soviet Europe, contemporary China, the conflicted Middle East, and an uncertain United States might be better characterized in terms of their "contemporaneity," a concept which captures the frictions of the present while denying the inevitability of all currently competing universalisms. Essays range from Antonio Negri's analysis of contemporaneity in light of the concept of multitude to Okwui Enwezor's argument that the entire world is now in a postcolonial constellation, and from Rosalind Krauss's defense of artistic modernism to Jonathan Hay's characterization of contemporary developments in terms of doubled and even para-modernities. The volume's centerpiece is a sequence of photographs from Zoe Leonard's Analogue project. Depicting used clothing, both as it is bundled for shipment in Brooklyn and as it is displayed for sale on the streets of Uganda, the sequence is part of a striking visual record of new cultural forms and economies emerging as others are left behind.Contributors: Monica Amor, Nancy Condee, Okwui Enwezor, Boris Groys, Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss, Bruno Latour, Zoe Leonard, Lev Manovich, James Meyer, Gao Minglu, Helen Molesworth, Antonio Negri, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Nikos Papastergiadis, Colin Richards, Suely Rolnik, Terry Smith, McKenzie Wark

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• Cultural studies

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• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 16 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822389330
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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M O D E R N I T Y, P O S T M O D E R N I T Y, C O N T E M P O R A N E I T Y

E D I T E D B Y T E R RY S M I T H , O K WU I E N WE Z O R , A N D N A N C Y C O N D E E

DukeUniversityPress

Durham&London

2008

∫2008 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

TO J A C Q U E S D E R R I DA , 19 3 0 – 2 0 0 4 , I N M E M O R I A M

C O N T E N T S

ListofIllustrations Prefacexiii Acknowledgments

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T E R RY S M I T H : Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question

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PA RT 1 : T H E P O L I T I C S O F T E M P O R A L I T Y

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A N TO N I O N E G R I : Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity 23

G E E TA K A P U R : A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary 30

R O S A L I N D K R A U S S : Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time

B O R I S G R OY S : The Topology of Contemporary Art

PA RT 2 : M U LT I P L E M O D E R N I T I E S

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M O N I C A A M O R : On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons 83

S U E LY R O L N I K : Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark 97

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M C K E N Z I E WA R K : The Giftshop at the End of History

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N I KO S PA PA S T E R G I A D I S : Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary 363

B R U N O L ATO U R : Emancipation or Attachments? The Di√erent Futures of Politics 309

J A M E S M E Y E R : The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism 324

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Z O E L E O N A R D : Analogue,1998–2007 187 I N T R O D U C E D B Y H E L E N M O L E S WO RT H

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L E V M A N OV I C H : Introduction to Info-Aesthetics

W U H U N G : A Case of Being ‘‘Contemporary’’: Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art

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S Y LV E S T E R O K W U N O D U O G B E C H I E : The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order 165

G A O M I N G L U : ‘‘Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth’’: Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art 133

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PA RT 4 : C OT E M P O R A L I T I E S

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J O N AT H A N H AY : Double Modernity, Para-Modernity

C O L I N R I C H A R D S : Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art

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PA RT 3 : A F T E RWO R L D S

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O K W U I E N W E Z O R : The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition

N A N C Y C O N D E E : From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World 235

References383 Contributors413 Index417

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