Contemporary art and the cosmopolitan imagination / Marsha Meskimmon.

By:

Meskimmon, Marsha

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xii, 119 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:

0415469201 (pbk.)
9780415469203 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.03 MES

Contents:

Introduction. Contemporary art : at home in a global world -- Foundation : dynamic ground -- Threshold : infinite generosity -- Passage : transitive affects -- Landing : imaginative engagement -- Afterword. On affirmative criticality.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701.03 MES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100397570

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-110) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of illustrations (p. viii)
List of plates (p. ix)
Permissions (p. x)
Introduction Contemporary art: at home in a global world (p. 1)
Chapter 1 Foundation - dynamic ground (p. 11)
Chapter 2 Threshold - infinite generosity (p. 32)
Chapter 3 Passage - transitive affects (p. 53)
Chapter 4 Landing - imaginative engagement (p. 74)
Afterword: On affirmative criticality (p. 90)
Notes (p. 94)
Selected bibliography (p. 103)
Index (p. 111)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Loughborough, UK. Her research centres on the work of women artists and expanded theoretical and critical perspectives on aesthetics, history and gendered subjectivity. She has authored a number of books and journal articles, including Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics (2003) and We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism (1999).