Gilane Tawadros (Stuart Hall Foundation, London, UK)

The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon

Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference

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Produktbeschreibung

Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon examines artistic practice through an international lens. This vibrant collection of essays and writings - produced in different cultural contexts and collected over two decades - introduces the reader to the thought, method of analysis and everyday experiences that have emerged from an increasingly globalized world, presenting a potentially radical frame through which to understand contemporary art. Gilane Tawadros experiments with methodology to draw cultural difference to the surface: from traditional criticism to fictional narratives, this critical variety mirrors her embrace of different perspectives and hints to the myriad ways in which contemporary art is created and presented. Using these techniques she explores the work of leading artists such as Adel Abdessemed, Richard Avedon, Sonia Boyce and Frank Bowling, offering expert guidance on the rich cultural and historical contexts of global and contemporary art through intimate engagement with lived experience. Playing with forms of writing, from critical analyses to fictional narratives, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon functions as a practice-based meditation on how to write about contemporary art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9781501363337
• ISBN-10: 1501363336
• Artikelnr.: 58021273

Autorenporträt

Gilane Tawadros

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Leftovers
of Translation 1. But What is the Question? Art, Research and the
Production of Knowledge 2. Extra-Extra: Interview with Raul Ortega Ayala 3.
Dissonant Chorus 4. Shen Yuan: The Leftovers of Translation 5. Voices Off:
Interview with Susan Hiller Part II: The Banality of Difference 6. 'We are
the Martians.' 7. Van Leo: Self-Portraits 8. Shirani Shahbazi: The Banality
of Difference 9. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the
Crime 10. Electrifying Eve Part III: Re-siting the City 11. The Real Me 12.
Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting 13. Alfred's Favourite Tree 14. The
Leopard 15. Maps of Desire Part IV: Studies in a Post-colonial body 16. The
Revolution Stripped Bare 17. Studies in a Post-colonial Body 18. Veil:
Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art Part V: Relocating the
Remains: History and Representation 19. Strangers and Barbarians:
Representing Ourselves and Others 20. Telling Tales: Keith Piper's
Relocating the Remains 21. Sweet Oblivion 22. Godville: Interview with Omer
Fast Part VI: Going Global 23. Going Global: 4th International Istanbul
Biennial 24. Detonations: Jonathan Hernández and the Rongwrong series 25.
Modern Europeans 26. Slipping Away (or Uncompliant Cartographies) Part VII:
Transmission Interrupted 27. Interruption in Four Acts, or Disappearing
Irises, Broken-down Buses and Ceramic Citroens 28. Egypt at the Venice
Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed Everything 29. From Zero to
Infinity: The Work of Adel Abdessemed 30. Reading (and Curating) from Right
to Left 31. Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration 32. A
Thousand and One Index