Title: Identity theft : the cultural colonization of contemporary art /
Authors: Harris, Jonathan; Harris, Jonathan.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Painting, Modern Congresses.; Art, South American Exhibitions Congresses.; Art Political aspects Argentina Congresses.; Art, Modern Congresses.; Art, Modern Congresses; Group identity in art Congresses.; Cultural property Congresses.; Cultural relations Congresses.; Art and society Congresses
Abstract: "Identity Theft asks some tough questions about the use and place of art in the early twenty-first century: How has it been appropriated as a form of advertising or corporate identity? How is it made the vehicle of novel nationalisms and historical re-inventions engineered by nation-states and their current ideologies of identity and cultural value? At the same time, with a cold eye, its contributors consider whether contemporary artists are in any position to resist these forms of incorporation, or even have any desire to."--Jacket.