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Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

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This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels. -- .

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Abnormal peripheries traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, telling a unique story of localised resistance to a monolithic public sphere through artistic intervention, a closely knit community, artistic exchange, and agonistic reframing of socialism as a philosophy rather than state ideology

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This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas.

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This volume explores how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia addresses ecological crises, through artistic interventions that inspire environmental consciousness, social justice, and sustainable futures.

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An ambitious and original study with case studies focusing on the works of William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price, Counter-Realism shows the ways in which key features of contemporary art may be understood in relation to fundamental aspects of contemporary political and economic life.

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This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (197081)

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Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity.

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Presents a short history of artworks at risk of passing unnoticed because they look like trash, or are little more than commonplace objects and fleeting gestures that disappear into the fabric of everyday life -- .

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Art + Archive examines how and why the archive became a hot topic in the artworld at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book connects the artworlds interest in archival terminology to a number of broader historical, technological, academic and philosophical contexts.

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Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc. -- .

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A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s. -- .

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This book examines the borderlands of the art world and the relations between art and visual mass culture in modernity. It includes case studies on photocollage, window displays, fashion photography and contemporary fine art. -- .