Migration into art: Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalised world

by Anne Ring Petersen

This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary art’s critical engagement with migration and globalisation as a key source for improving our understanding of how these processes transform identities, cultures, institutions and geopolitics. The author explores three interwoven issues of enduring identity and belonging, institutional visibility and recognition of migrant artists, and the interrelations between aesthetics and politics, including the balancing of aesthetics, politics and ethics in representations of forced migration.

248 pages, Hardcover

Published November 29, 2017