Return to the Postcolony
Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
by T. J. Demos

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Author(s)

T. J. Demos

Publication, year

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2013

Scope

176 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

9783943365429

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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. T. J. Demos places contemporary art within the context of neoliberal globalization and what scholars have referred to as the “colonial present.”

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Location

Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie

Remarks

Incl. Bibliography.