{"product_id":"antinomies-of-art-and-culture-modernity-postmodernity-contemporaneity-paperback","title":"Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOkwui Enwezor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNancy Condee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTerry Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad categories and terms such as modernity, postmodernity, globalization, and decolonization are still relevant or useful. Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images, \u003ci\u003eAntinomies of Art and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the volume's introduction the theorist Terry Smith argues that predictions that postmodernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Smith suggests that the various situations of decolonized Africa, post-Soviet Europe, contemporary China, the conflicted Middle East, and an uncertain United States might be better characterized in terms of their \"contemporaneity,\" a concept which captures the frictions of the present while denying the inevitability of all currently competing universalisms. Essays range from Antonio Negri's analysis of contemporaneity in light of the concept of multitude to Okwui Enwezor's argument that the entire world is now in a postcolonial constellation, and from Rosalind Krauss's defense of artistic modernism to Jonathan Hay's characterization of contemporary developments in terms of doubled and even para-modernities. The volume's centerpiece is a sequence of photographs from Zoe Leonard's \u003ci\u003eAnalogue\u003c\/i\u003e project. Depicting used clothing, both as it is bundled for shipment in Brooklyn and as it is displayed for sale on the streets of Uganda, the sequence is part of a striking visual record of new cultural forms and economies emerging as others are left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e: Monica Amor, Nancy Condee, Okwui Enwezor, Boris Groys, Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss, Bruno Latour, Zoe Leonard, Lev Manovich, James Meyer, Gao Minglu, Helen Molesworth, Antonio Negri, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Nikos Papastergiadis, Colin Richards, Suely Rolnik, Terry Smith, McKenzie Wark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a provocative and indeed challenging assessment of the relation between 'art' and 'culture' (in scare quotes because both concepts are questioned) in the post-post-modernist moment. The essays successfully reposition discussion in a genuinely worldwide perspective, redefine modernism on a global scale, and push avant-garde thinking in new directions.--Hayden White, University Professor Emeritus, University of California, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerry 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkwui 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 \u003ci\u003eSnap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography \u003c\/i\u003eat the International Center of Photography in New York, where he serves as Adjunct Curator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Condee is Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming) and editor of \u003ci\u003eSoviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth-Century Russia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 16, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457510621437,"sku":"9780822342038","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/pCE4oP7gtr9780822342038.webp?v=1777237990","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/antinomies-of-art-and-culture-modernity-postmodernity-contemporaneity-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}