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The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Caroline A. Jones
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Description for The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that globalism was incubated in a century of international art contests, and today constitutes an important tactic for practicing artists. As world's fairs brought millions of attendees into contact with foreign cultures, products, and processes, artworks became juxtaposed in a theater of nations, which challenged artists and critics to think outside their local ... Read more
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that globalism was incubated in a century of international art contests, and today constitutes an important tactic for practicing artists. As world's fairs brought millions of attendees into contact with foreign cultures, products, and processes, artworks became juxtaposed in a theater of nations, which challenged artists and critics to think outside their local ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226291741
SKU
V9780226291741
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About Caroline A. Jones
Caroline A. Jones is professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books, including Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist and Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses, both published by the University of Chicago Press. ... Read more
Reviews for The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Continuing her innovative work in redefining the object of art history, Jones takes on the world in this book, a critical investigation of the labor of art to provide alternatives within the dominant forms of spectacle promoted by neoliberal globalization. Crucially, Jones makes us encounter the staging conditions of contemporary art, from the private gallery to the blockbuster exhibition, in ... Read more