The "Third Text" Reader on Art, Culture and Theory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826458513 ISBN 13: 9780826458513

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

Synopsis

"Third Text" is a journal on art in global context. Challenging received notions of art practice, art history, popular media and cultural theory, "Third Text" has never been content to accept the claims of anti-racism, multiculturalism or postcoloniality. It has championed new artists from five continents, and is designed to raise the critical temperature and the political stakes for art and cultural practice in the age of globalization. This reader brings together essays by critics in global art and cultural studies, but also writings by new voices which emerged in the last decades of the 20th century. Divided into sections - history, representation, identity, film, "post" theory, globalization - the reader is aimed at students and teachers of art, cultural studies, media studies, postcolonialism and globalisation.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Ziauddin Sardar, City University, Sean Cubitt, University of Waikato, and Rasheed Araeen, editor of Third Text.

From the Back Cover

'Third Text is always ahead of the times - it points at the way out when critique becomes fashion.' Gayatri Spivak

'Third Text is like a skylight - one can look upwards through it and one can see by it.' John Berger

Third Text has been the world's leading journal on art in the global context. Knows for challenging received notions of art practice, art history, popular media and cultural theory, it has never accepted unquestioningly the claims of anti-racism, multiculturalism or postcolonialism. Similarly, Third Text has not only championed new artists from six continents, it has raised the critical temperature and the political stakes for art and cultural practice in the age of globalization.

This Reader brings together classic essays by some of the best-known critics in global art and cultural studies, together with some of the most exciting new voices to emerge over the last decades. Divided into sections that cover history, representation, identity, film, 'post' theory, globalization - the Reader will be invaluable to students and teachers of art, cultural studies, media studies, postcolonialism and globalisation.

Selected Contributors: Zygmunt Bauman, Rustom Bharucha, Zeynap Gelik, James Clifford, Sean Cubitt, Jimmie Durham, Clifford Geertz, Stuart Hall, Kobener Mercer, Benita Parry, George Ritzer, Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, Julian Stallabrass, Slavoj Zizek .

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826458513
• ISBN 13: 9780826458513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Sardar Ziauddin, Araeen Rasheed, Cubitt Sean