Art in a Multipolar World (Hatje Cantz Text) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775758240 ISBN 13: 9783775758246

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2025

Synopsis

How do geopolitical, economical, and socio-political upheavals impact the field of art today

This monograph takes a look at how the increasing multipolarity of our world affects art. It is a diagnosis of the socio-political contexts that surround art and questions what the upheavals in geopolitics, economic and social policy mean for the field of art today. The text is divided into four sections. First, the phenomenon is conceptualized and theorized. This is followed by an in-depth examination of the interrelationships using documenta fifteen as a case study, an exhibition that can be seen as a crystallization point for current political shifts. This is followed by an in-depth reading of Chinese art policy, which oscillates between particularist and universalist claims, in order to arrive at the concluding section, which opens up a horizon of thought and experimentation that helps us to come to terms with the era of multipolarity.

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This monograph takes a look at how the increasing multipolarity of our world affects art. It is a diagnosis of the socio-political contexts that surround art and questions what the upheavals in geopolitics, economic and social policy mean for the field of art today.

The text is divided into four sections. First, the phenomenon is conceptualized and theorized. This is followed by an in-depth examination of the interrelationships using documenta fifteen as a case study, an exhibition that can be seen as a crystallization point for current political shifts. This is followed by an in-depth reading of Chinese art policy, which oscillates between particularist and universalist claims, in order to arrive at the concluding section, which opens up a horizon of thought and experimentation that helps us to come to terms with the era of multipolarity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775758240
• ISBN 13: 9783775758246
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280