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Biennials, Triennials and Documenta [ Texto impreso] : the exhibitions that created contemporary art / Charles Green and Anthony Gardner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Malden, Massachusetts] : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.Description: viii, 296 p. : fotografías en blanco y negro ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781444336658 (paper)
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  • Exhibitions that created contemporary art
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Contents:
Part 1. The second wave : 1972: The rise of the star-curator -- 1979: Cultural translation, cultural exclusion, and the second wave -- The South and the edges of the global -- Part 2. The politics of legitimacy : 1989: Asian biennialization -- 1997: Biennials, migration, and itinerancy -- Part 3. Hegemony or a new canon : 2002: Cosmopolitanism -- 2003: Delegating authority -- 2014: Global art circuits -- Conclusión.
Información biográfica o histórica: Charles Green is profesor de arte contemporáneo en la Universidad de Melbourne.Anthony Gardner is profesor asociado de historia y teoría del arte contemporáneo en la Universidad de Oxford.Language Note: Inglés.Bibliography: Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.Scope and content: Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s. Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York's Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014. Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene. Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art. -- Página web del editor.
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Monografía prestable Biblioteca FJM Sala general Estudios Curatoriales N 72 .G55 G74 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1246571

Part 1. The second wave : 1972: The rise of the star-curator -- 1979: Cultural translation, cultural exclusion, and the second wave -- The South and the edges of the global -- Part 2. The politics of legitimacy : 1989: Asian biennialization -- 1997: Biennials, migration, and itinerancy -- Part 3. Hegemony or a new canon : 2002: Cosmopolitanism -- 2003: Delegating authority -- 2014: Global art circuits -- Conclusión.

Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s. Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York's Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014. Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene. Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art. -- Página web del editor.

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