Negotiations at Contemporary Arts Boundaries
Alberro shows that global contemporary art is a North Atlantic fiction, pervasive and insidious, that acts as a massive provincializing machine. Offering acute accounts of wide range of examples, Alberro traces how artistsespecially art collectivesin many parts of the world are negotiating new modes of transcultural exchange at the margins, while at the same time enriching the independence of local cultures. This mix anticipates the worlds, and the art, to come." -- Terry Smith, author of "Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art"
Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright 51 Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Abstraction in Reverse, Institutional Critique, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, and Conceptual Art. Alberro has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Howard Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others.
Introduction: Deprovincializing Contemporary Art 1. Circulation 2. Translating Difference 3. Chixi Epistemology 4. Decolonizing Nature Conclusion: Beyond Hierarchy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index