The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World

The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World
Author: Stephen Naylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351062085

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial and visual representation of contemporary art presented at the Venice Biennale and incorporating the politics behind national selections, this monograph provides insights into a range of important elements of the global art industry. Areas analysed include national cultural trends and strategies, the inversion of the peripheral to the centre stage of the Biennale, geopolitics in gaining exhibition space at the Venice Biennale, curatorial practices for contemporary art presentation and artistic trends that seek to deal with major economic, cultural, religious and environmental issues emerging from non-European art centres. This monograph will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies and Asia-Pacific cultural history.

Screen Ecologies

Screen Ecologies
Author: Larissa Hjorth
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 026233402X

How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddled with irony, because the resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and waste associated with digital devices contribute to environmental damage and climate change. Screen Ecologies examines the relationship of media, art, and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region—a key site of both environmental degradation and the production and consumption of climate-aware screen art and media. Screen Ecologies shows how new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. It investigates such topics as artists' exploration of alternative ways to represent the environment; regional stories of media innovation and climate change; the tensions between amateur and professional art; the emergence of biennials, triennials, and new arts organizations; the theme of water in regional art; new models for networked collaboration; and social media's move from private to public realms. A generous selection of illustrations shows a range of artist's projects.

Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction Market

Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction Market
Author: Anita Archer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2022-04-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004510044

Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction Market charts the rapid emergence of a multi-million-dollar global market for Chinese Contemporary art by revealing the strategic activities of art world agents in promoting the work of ‘avant-garde’ Chinese artists to a Western audience.

Infrastructure and Form

Infrastructure and Form
Author: Karin Zitzewitz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520344928

Feminist networks, new biennials, and performance -- Painting and the image condition at the millennium -- Materiality, ephemerality, and haptics -- Language, the documentary, and art in a discursive mode -- Infrastructure, collaboration, and the cut -- Conclusion : Infrastructure is not (only) a metaphor.

Art in the Asia-Pacific

Art in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Larissa Hjorth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317935713

As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social media. By focusing upon the Asia-Pacific region, they seek to examine how regionalism and locality affect global circuits of culture. The book also offers a set of theoretical frameworks and methodological paradigms for thinking about contemporary art practice more generally.

What Is Contemporary Art?

What Is Contemporary Art?
Author: Terry Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-08-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022613167X

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is going.

Modern Asian Art

Modern Asian Art
Author: John Clark
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780824821425

A seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. A significant and challenging contribution to the discussion of the advent of modernism in Asia.

Gender and Women's Leadership

Gender and Women's Leadership
Author: Karen O'Connor
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412960835

These volumes provide an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender, with a focus on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains.