Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art - Softcover

Demos, T. J.

 
9783943365429: Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3943365425 ISBN 13: 9783943365429
Verlag: Sternberg Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

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T. J. Demos, an award-winning writer, is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press).

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Verlag
Sternberg Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3943365425
ISBN 13 
9783943365429
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
174
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