{"product_id":"reenvisioning-the-contemporary-art-canon-9781138192690","title":"Reenvisioning the Contemporary Art Canon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRe-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field, which has experienced dramatic shifts in the past 50 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn discussions of the canon of art history, the notion of inclusiveness', both at the level of rhetoric and as a desired practice is on the rise and gradually replacing talk of exclusion', which dominated critiques of the canon up until two decades ago. The art field has dramatically, if insufficiently, changed in the half-century since the first protests and critiques of the exclusion of others' from the art canon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith increased globalization and shifting geopolitics, the art field is expanding beyond its Euro-American focus, as is particularly evident in the large-scale international biennales now held all over the globe. Are canons and counter-canons still relevant? Can they be re-envisioned rather than merely revised? Following an introduction tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best essays in this collection are well aware of the complex entanglements and disentanglements that lie behind the canonizing process, and many readers will want to read them for that reason.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Jan Gorak, University of Denver, USA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely, necessary volume, one that asks—across lucid and jargon-free case studies and equally dynamic round-table discussions—whither the place of the art historical canon in a contemporary art world. Answers diverge, and for the better. Taken together the texts model a pluriversal discourse that may well become a standard of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Hudson, Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon\u003c\/em\u003e is an intellectually astute intervention into the growing literature on contemporary art, its validation and significance within the history of art. Through a series of fascinating essays and well-written introductory sections, this book sets out the premises for a critical account of how contemporary art canons get created in a range of institutional and discursive contexts globally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor in Global Art and Design Studies, Birmingham City University, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful contribution that examines art historical canons and the political, social, and ethical forces that shape and reshape them. In examining canons in myriad contexts, this text pressures us to rethink how we understand and categorize art and the artworld in our globalized present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of the canon is a persistent one; even when considered obsolete, it continues to operate covertly in collecting, exhibition and scholarly practices. This volume brings the concept out into the open for a full and intensive discussion of its problematics and possibilities. At a time when geopolitical, gender and postcolonial perspectives are generating more inclusive methods in curating and art history, \u003ci\u003eRe-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling argument to not only critique the canon but to strategically reconceive it for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher\u003c\/strong\u003e, Editors, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Curatorial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRe-envisioning the Canon: Are Pluriversal Canons Possible? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth E. Iskin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude Cahun and Marcel Moore: Casualties of a Backfiring Canon?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTirza True Latimer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Michel Basquiat and the American Art Canon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordana Moore Saggese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila Hicks and the Consecration of Fiber Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElissa Auther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Elephant in the Church: Ai Weiwei, the Media Circus and the Global Canon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWenny Teo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Anatsui’s Abstractions: Transformations, Analogies and the New Global\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Harney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Mediums\/Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apotheosis of Video Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Kaizen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformance Art: Part of the Canon?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennie Klein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreet Art: Critique, Commodification, Canonization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaula J. Birnbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Media Art and Canonization: A Round-Robin Conversation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Cook with Karin de Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Exhibitions, Museums, Markets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Canon of Exhibition History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Vogel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanonizing Hitler’s \"Degenerate Art\" in Three American Exhibitions, 1939‒1942\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer McComas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuseum Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha Buskirk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Commodification of the Contemporary Artist and High-Profile Solo Exhibition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Case of Takashi Murakami\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonit Milano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTroubling Canons: Curating and Exhibiting Women’s and Feminist Art, A Roundtable Discussion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelena Reckitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Contemporary Art Canon and the Market, A Roundtable Discussion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan T. 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