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Moving the Goalposts.
- Source :
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Third Text . Sep2011, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p503-513. 11p. 1 Black and White Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The author discusses the consequences of the academicisation of the social history of art, the way in which a project that was initially a response to pressing issues both inside and outside the academy has become increasingly institutionalised. To restore a wider relevance, he argues the need to open art history to the requirements of a contemporary ‘global imperative’, to play its part in the study of a global field of visual culture. But this is not simply a question of expanding the remit of existing art history. The focus is on the consequences for emergent world art studies of a critical engagement with the legacy of both modernism and conceptual art. The author considers four aspects of this: the impact of the decline of modernist binaries of ‘high/low’, and of ‘mainstream/provincial’, the idea of the autonomy of art, and contrasting definitions of the nature of ‘art’ itself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *ART history
*HISTORIOGRAPHY of art
*MODERNISM (Art)
*CONCEPTUAL art
*ART
*ART theory
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09528822
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Third Text
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 66286227
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2011.608974