Antinomies of art and culture : modernity, postmodernity, contemporaneity

Smith, Terry (Terry E.) (Added Author). Enwezor, Okwui. (Added Author). Condee, Nancy. (Added Author). Groĭs, Boris. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0822342030 (paper)
ISBN: 9780822342038 (paper)
ISBN: 0822341867 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780822341864 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 437 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-412) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction. Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith -- Pt. I. Politics of Temporality -- 1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri -- 2. Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur -- 3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss -- 4. Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys -- Pt. 2. Multiple Modernities -- 5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor -- 6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik -- 7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay -- 8. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu -- 9. Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie -- 10. Analogue, 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard -- Introduced / Helen Molesworth -- Pt. 3. Afterworlds -- 11. Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor -- 12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Candee -- 13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards -- 14. Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung -- Pt. 4. Cotemporalities -- 15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour -- 16. Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer -- 17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich -- 18. Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark -- 19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis.