The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds

ed. by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel ; texts by Gerardo Mosquera, Sabine B. Vogel, Raqs Media Collective [...et al. ]

Author(s)
Gerardo Mosquera, Sabine B. Vogel, Raqs Media Collective, …[et al. ]
Editor(s)
Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel
Publication, year
Karlsruhe : ZKM, Center for Art and Media, 2013
Scope
496 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.
ISBN
9780262518345

The book covers a lot of historical ground, taking that tectonic year 1989 as its starting point and using the explosion of international biennials and triennials for an art-world map utterly different from the one that existed a generation or two ago. The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual arts have become globalized as surely as the world economy has. This book offers a new map of contemporary art's new worlds.


Location
Cabinet 29 - 3: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Algemeen
Remarks
Incl. Biographies of the authors and Index