{"product_id":"biennials-triennials-and-documenta-9781444336658","title":"Biennials Triennials and Documenta","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces 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 \u003ci\u003eDocumenta11 \u003c\/i\u003ein Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the history of biennials as a mean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Biennials, Triennials and Documenta\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to the history of the globalization of biennials or biennalization. Green and Gardner cover all major biennial-type events and their constellations that emerged on the five continents: Documenta, Manifesta, Tirana, and Venice Biennales, among others, in Europe; in South America, the São Paulo Bienal and Bienal de La Habana; the Johannesburg Biennale in Africa; the Biennale of Sydney and Asia-Pacific Triennial, among others, in Australia; and Gwangju, Shanghai, and Istanbul Biennials in Asia.\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net:  Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online\u003c\/i\u003e, July 2019\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 The SecondWave\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 1972: The Rise of the Star-Curator 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 1979: Cultural Translation, Cultural Exclusion, and the Second Wave 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 1986: The South and the Edges of the Global 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 The Politics of Legitimacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 1989: Asian Biennialization 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 1997: Biennials, Migration, and Itinerancy 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Hegemony or a New Canon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 2002: Cosmopolitanism 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 2003: Delegating Authority 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 2014: Global Art Circuits 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Conclusion 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 279\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408390201687,"sku":"9781444336658","price":19.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444336658.jpg?v=1730502725","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biennials-triennials-and-documenta-9781444336658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}