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Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

2011 Marsha Meskimmon ;ISBN: 0415469201 ;ISBN: 9780415469203 ;ISBN: 0415469198 ;ISBN: 9780415469197 ;EISBN: 9781136937064 ;EISBN: 9780203846834 ;EISBN: 0203846834 ;EISBN: 1136937064 ;EISBN: 9781136937057 ;EISBN: 0415469198 ;EISBN: 9780415469197 ;EISBN: 1136937056 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203846834 ;OCLC: 664551629

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    Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
  • Author: Meskimmon, Marsha
  • Subjects: Art & Visual Culture ; Art and globalization ; Art and globalization - History - 21st century ; Art, Modern ; Contemporary Art ; Cosmopolitanism ; Cultural Studies ; Museum and Heritage Studies
  • Description: Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes of transnational and transcultural exchange typical of the global economy. Rather, art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialogue between cosmopolitan imagination, embodied ethics and locational identity. The development of a cosmopolitan imagination is crucial to engendering a global sense of ethical and political responsibility. By materialising concepts and meanings beyond the limits of a narrow individualism, art plays an important role in this development, enabling us to encounter difference, imagine change and make possible the new. This book asks what it means to inhabit a globalized world – how we might literally and figuratively make ourselves cosmopolitans, ‘at home’ everywhere. Contemporary art provides a space for this enquiry. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination is structured and written through four ‘architectonic figurations’ – foundation, threshold, passage and landing – which simultaneously reference the built environment and the transformative structure of knowledge-systems. It offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 144
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0415469201
    ISBN: 9780415469203
    ISBN: 0415469198
    ISBN: 9780415469197
    EISBN: 9781136937064
    EISBN: 9780203846834
    EISBN: 0203846834
    EISBN: 1136937064
    EISBN: 9781136937057
    EISBN: 0415469198
    EISBN: 9780415469197
    EISBN: 1136937056
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203846834
    OCLC: 664551629
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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