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The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts
In the 21st century, the experience of leaving home and crossing national boundaries belongs to ever-growing numbers of persons. Whether escaping persecution or seeking work, fleeing hopelessness or striving for creative opportunities, each migrant—like all others throughout history who sought a distant new life—steps into a foreign world where much is strange and alien. This timely book explores the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject in the world of art, as well as the ways in which the mobilities of our globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display.
The title of the volume is taken from an essay by Ranajit Guha in which he considers the conditions of alienation and exclusion that are so inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. In a collection of thought-provoking essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism address the universality of conditions of global migration and invite a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies. They also suggest exciting new empirical and theoretical directions for each of these traditional frameworks.
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The title signifies both the temporality of the experience of being a migrant, and a stage of the world filled with migrants. Historians, critics, and practitioners of art explore how the theme of migration as arrived in the visual arts. The topics include Mona Hatoum's logic on irreconcilable, when art history actually begins in the Black diaspora, guest workers and Alvaro Siza's Bonjour Tristesse housing for the Berlin Housing Exhibition, Zarina Hashmi and the arts of dispossession, and transaesthetics in the photographs of Shirin Neshat. Distributed in the US by Yale University Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display.
In a wide-ranging selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
The title of the volume is taken from an essay by Ranajit Guha in which he considers the conditions of alienation and exclusion that are so inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. In a collection of thought-provoking essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism address the universality of conditions of global migration and invite a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies. They also suggest exciting new empirical and theoretical directions for each of these traditional frameworks.
Book News Annotation:
The title signifies both the temporality of the experience of being a migrant, and a stage of the world filled with migrants. Historians, critics, and practitioners of art explore how the theme of migration as arrived in the visual arts. The topics include Mona Hatoum's logic on irreconcilable, when art history actually begins in the Black diaspora, guest workers and Alvaro Siza's Bonjour Tristesse housing for the Berlin Housing Exhibition, Zarina Hashmi and the arts of dispossession, and transaesthetics in the photographs of Shirin Neshat. Distributed in the US by Yale University Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display.
In a wide-ranging selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
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272 pages
First published October 7, 2007
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February 7, 2016
I am a dancer, artist, and service designer. I am NOT an academic nor am I in school. I forget how I came across the book but my life is richer for having read Mathur's well-researched, penetrating deconstruction of how the West sees India, how Indian art sees itself, and the impact of 300 years of history of and the construction of Indian "high" and "low" arts.
As other reviewers had written, the book is dense at times. In fact I'm not embarrassed to admit a few sentences made absolutely no sense to me no matter how many times I read them (An account of the dynamic processes of reinscription and reconfiguration that objects put into play is one way to challenge the powerful assumptions regarding objects, places, and permanent "homes" that persist in determining our contemporary paradigms of museology and its discourses of return.) though admittedly these times were rare. The joys of the book are found far beyond her seemingly thorough examinations of the arts of the subcontinent. the author gives delightful brief histories like that of the postcard she delivers in chapter 4.
This book brings together the world of art the (then) emerging science of anthropology, the fashionable culture of the department store, and the professional practices of painters and museum curators in crafting a picture of Indian culture.
As other reviewers had written, the book is dense at times. In fact I'm not embarrassed to admit a few sentences made absolutely no sense to me no matter how many times I read them (An account of the dynamic processes of reinscription and reconfiguration that objects put into play is one way to challenge the powerful assumptions regarding objects, places, and permanent "homes" that persist in determining our contemporary paradigms of museology and its discourses of return.) though admittedly these times were rare. The joys of the book are found far beyond her seemingly thorough examinations of the arts of the subcontinent. the author gives delightful brief histories like that of the postcard she delivers in chapter 4.
This book brings together the world of art the (then) emerging science of anthropology, the fashionable culture of the department store, and the professional practices of painters and museum curators in crafting a picture of Indian culture.
January 6, 2014
Super academic. Super interesting for me but probably not a page-turner if you're not also an academic interested in cultural globalization, material culture, or conceptions of cultural authenticity.
May 25, 2021
Only if the academic jargon was limited...
May 11, 2022
just ok, Miwon Kwon's chapter was my fav obvi
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