Location: 2 (Art History Special Issues) - Softcover

 
9781405146944: Location: 2 (Art History Special Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 140514694X ISBN 13: 9781405146944
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.

  • Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
  • Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
  • Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the repositioning of ownership

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About the Author

Deborah Cherry is Professor of the History of Art at the University of the Arts, London.

Fintan Cullen is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham.

From the Back Cover

How important is location in producing, understanding, and curating art? What happens when art and artists migrate? Thisexciting and provocative collection brings together seven essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of ‘location’.

‘Location’ is considered in many different ways: the migration of art and artists in the past and the present, trans-national and trans-cultural exchanges and international exhibitions, the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging difference, and the significance of location in producing, writing about and curating art in Europe, North America and Asia. An attention to place and space in global and local settings highlights site-specificity as well as global connections, actual and imaginary locations, the places and positions of viewing, and the location of the artist, in the studio and in the work.

From the Inside Flap

How important is location in producing, understanding, and curating art? What happens when art and artists migrate? Thisexciting and provocative collection brings together seven essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of ‘location’.

‘Location’ is considered in many different ways: the migration of art and artists in the past and the present, trans-national and trans-cultural exchanges and international exhibitions, the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging difference, and the significance of location in producing, writing about and curating art in Europe, North America and Asia. An attention to place and space in global and local settings highlights site-specificity as well as global connections, actual and imaginary locations, the places and positions of viewing, and the location of the artist, in the studio and in the work.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
140514694X
ISBN 13 
9781405146944
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Editor
Cherry Deborah, Cullen Fintan