Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination - Politics, Ethics, Affect

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Loughborough, UK. Her research centres on the work of women artists and expanded theoretical and critical perspectives on aesthetics, history and gendered subjectivity. She has authored a number of books and journal articles, including Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics (2003) and We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism (1999). Klappentext Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art. Zusammenfassung Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Plates Introduction. Contemporary Art: At Home in a Global World 1. Foundation – Dynamic Ground 2. Threshold – Infinite Generosity 3. Passage – Transitive Affects 4. Landing – Imaginative Engagement Afterword On Affirmative Criticality Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Marsha Meskimmon, Meskimmon Marsha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415469197
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46919-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -