" 'Art Histories: Global and Local Meditations' at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, held at the University of Leeds in 2006 ... was an important starting point for this book" -- P. [ix]
Includes bibliographical references
Recombinant art histories / Gregory Minissale -- Local responses, global pandemic: rethinking representations of HIV/AIDS / Royce W. Smith -- Local-global positions in Zarina Bhimji's Out of Blue / Alice Correia -- Contemporary photography: between the global and the local / Frederick Gross -- South Africa: empowering the local / Jillian Carman -- Mapping Estonian modernism: Märt Laarman and the Eesti Kunstnikkude Ryhm / Jonathan Blackwood -- Indian modernism: the progressive artists group / Savita Apte -- A short history of anti-illusionism / Gregory Minissale -- Dialogues between 'Orientalism' and modernism in Shirin Neshat's 'Women of Allah' / Amna Malik -- The fabric of Nomadism: stitching the global and the local / Hee-Young Kim -- Nailing the global body: from Kongo to Witkin / Oliver Chow -- Beyond meditation: the long yams of Maprik, Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye -- Internet art: global and local heterotopia / Celina Jeffery -- Raqs Media Collective: Nomadism in art practice / Elena Bernadini -- 'Can I be Slovene too?' / Diana Heise -- The dialogics of chocolate: a silent DIALOG on Israeli-Palestinian politics / Allessandro Imperato
There are now many books on postcolonial theory, yet relatively few of them gather together sustained, dynamic and insightful analyses of visuality, art and art history outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes and concerns. Global and Local Art Histories explores what it means to have a global and local experience of art. The 15 essays published here suggest ways of interpreting works of art from a broad range of cultural perspectives, many of them transcultural. Here are voices contesting ..
