Return To The Postcolony - Specters Of Colonialism In Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

T. J. Demos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3943365425 ISBN 13: 9783943365429

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of "reverse migration"--a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

About this title

About the Author:

T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3943365425
• ISBN 13: 9783943365429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176