Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press) - Softcover

T. J. Demos places contemporary art within the context of neoliberal globalization and what scholars have referred to as the »colonial present.« The analysis is complex and provocative, both for an understanding of the historical material as well as for the contemporary theoretical discourse. »Return to the Postcolony« is one of the most ambitious, intelligent, and readable texts on contemporary art related to the African context that I have read. (Alexander Alberro, author of »Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity«)

The specters of colonialism continue to haunt the current global order. Far removed from universalist and ultimately empty demands for a »global art history,« T. J. Demos uses particular cases to explore the false universality of »globalization« as we know it. This is art writing at its best: determinate and determined. (Sven Lütticken, author of »Idols of the Market: Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle«)

Art contemporain et " colonialisme actuel ".