First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor
Garcia Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned
cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of
imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to
happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining contemporary art and its
role in society is an ever more complicated endeavor. Museums,
auction houses, artists, and major actors in economics, politics,
and the media are increasingly chummy and interdependent. Art is
expanding into urban development and the design and tourism
industries. Art practices based on objects are displaced by
practices based on contexts. Aesthetic distinctions dissolve as
artworks are inserted into the media, urban spaces, digital
networks, and social forums. Oppositional artists are adrift in a
society without a clear story line. What, after all, counts as
transgression in a world of diverse and fragmentary narratives?
Seeking a new analytic framework for understanding contemporary
art, Garcia Canclini is attentive to particular artworks; to
artists including Francis Alys, Leon Ferrari, Teresa Margolles,
Antoni Muntadas, and Gabriel Orozco; and to efforts to preserve,
for art and artists, some degree of independence from religion,
politics, the media, and the market.
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