Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization

<p>This book addresses the art historical category of contemporary art from a transregional perspective but unlike other volumes of its kind it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of the contemporary. </p><p>The book concerns itself with the historical conditions in which a radically new mode of artistic production distribution and consumption – called contemporary art – emerged in some countries of Eastern Europe the post-Soviet republics of the USSR India Latin America and the Middle East following both local and broader sociopolitical processes of modernization and neoliberalization. Its main argument is that one cannot fully engage with the idea of the global contemporary without also paying careful attention to the particular local and/or national symptoms of the contemporary condition. Part I is methodological and theoretical in scope while Part II is historical and documentary. For the latter a number of case studies address the emergence of the category contemporary art in the context of Lebanon Egypt India Hungary Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Armenia and Moldova.</p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history globalism cultural studies and postcolonial studies.</p>