In 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, "Antinomies of
Art and Culture" is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to
understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the
contemporary moment.
In 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 "Analogue" 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.
"Contributors" 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
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