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The Global Work of Art
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Caroline A. Jones
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The first major history of the glamorous art biennial. Biennials have proliferated across the globe since the end of the Cold War and have now stabilized at abo
The Global Work of Art
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Caroline A. Jones
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history
My Life as a Work of Art
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Katya Tylevich
Categories: Art, Modern
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-11 - Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

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Why is this art? The world of contemporary art can seem intimidating, absurd, and self-obsessed, while the sums of money exchanged are baffling. Writing on cont
The Work of Art in the World
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Doris Sommer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-08 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. The reformist projects
Heritage and Debt
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: David Joselit
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-10 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. If European modernism was premised