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Informationen zum Autor Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books including The Architecture of Aftermath and Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America.Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, including the 2nd Seville Biennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998–2002), and Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.Nancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (forthcoming) and editor of Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia. Klappentext Collection of essays by art historians and cultural theorists on what it means for art to be contemporary in the wake of postmodernism. Zusammenfassung Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images! this book inquires into how to understand! describe! and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. It argues that predictions that post-modernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments svii Introduction: The Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith 1 Part I: The Politics of Temporality 1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri 23 2. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur 30 3. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss 60 4. The Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys 71 Part 2: Multiple Modernities 5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor 83 6. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik 97 7. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay 113 8. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu 133 9. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie 165 10. Analogue: 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard, Introduced by Helen Molesworth 187 Part 3: Afterworlds 11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor 207 12. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Condee 235 13. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards 250 14. A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung 290 Part 4: Cotemporalities 15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour 309 16. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer 324 17. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich 333 18. The Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark 345 19. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis 363 References 383 Contributors 413 Index 417 ...
