MIT Press MA | ISBN:0262017733 | File Type: PDF, 248 pages | File size: 28.Mb | Sep. 14th, 2012
Art Criticism and Art Theory: It may be time to forget the art world or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse Today the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read its borders blur In Forgetting the Art World amela Lee connects the current state of this world to globalization and its attendant controversies Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration borders and mtitudes but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process Rather than think about the global art world as a socioeconomic phenomenon or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors Lee considers the work of art s world as a medium through which globalization takes place She argues that the work of art is itself both object and agent of globalization Lee explores the ways that art actualizes iterates or enables the processes of globalization offering close readings of works by artists who have come to prominence in the last two decades She examines the just in time managerial ethos of Takahashi Murakami the production of ethereal spaces in Andreas Gursky s images of contemporary markets and manufacture the logic of immanent cause dramatized in Thomas Hirschhorn s mixed media displays and the pseudo collectivism in the contemporary practice of the Atlas Group the Raqs Media Collective and others To speak of the work of art s world Lee says is to point to both the work of art s mattering and its materialization to understand the activity performed by the object as utterly continuous with the world it at once inhabits and creates
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