On cultural influence
Subtitle: collected papers from Apexart international conferences 1999-2006
By: [edited by Steven Rand and Heather Kouris].
Contributors: Rand, Steven.; Kouris, Heather.; Apex Art C.P. (Gallery)
Publisher: Apexart
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781933347110
Subjects: Art and society -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Art criticism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Collected papers from Apexart international conferences 1999-2006.
Notes: "This collection presents over thirty papers delivered at three apexart international conferences -- Wroclaw, Poland (1999), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001), and Honolulu, Hawaii (2004)"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Objects or reflection: Brazilian cultural situation / Felipe Chaimovich; title: Writing history on the margins: New Zealand / Wystan Curnow; title: Orientalism in Mexican art / Rubén Gallo; title: Inside/Outside: western curatorial practices and the politics of representation in contemporary African art / Salah Hassan; title: Will the real Shevchenko please stand up? culture and its predicament in Ukraine / Marta Kuzma; title: Contradiction and dynamism: contemporary Korean art system in the 1990s / Young Chul Lee; title: Canadian cultural policy: a metaphysical problem / Ken Lum; title: Art is entertainment is art is entertainment is art; title: / Boris Moshkovits; title: The geography of Central and East European art / Piotr Piotrowski; title: Asian-Australian artists: recent cultural shifts in Australia / Melissa Chiu; title: The reception of modernism within the context of Croatian art since the 1950s / Ana Devic; title: On Thai artists and an issue of cultural identity / Gridthiya Gaweewong; title: Something rotten in the state of Denmark? multiculturalism and public funding / Frederikke Hansen; title: Programmable revolutions: a binational interpretation of the modernist dream / Pablo Helguera; title: The global and the indigenous: cultural hegemony & the re-investigation of the indigenous knowledge systems / Pitika Ntuli; title: The failure of modernization: globalization and culture / John Roberts; title: Problems of cultural translation: the context of define "context" / José Ignacio Roca; title: Freedom and the west: shifting meaning in Post-Soviet culture / Plesya Turkina; title: A dis-operative turn in contemporary art / Stephen Wright; title: Critical economy: reassessing critical context for contemporaryart from a base in the Pacific / Gergory Burke; title: Survival guide to be free from anxiety of influence / Chaos Y. Chen; title: Addressing progressive social values / Bart De Baere; title: Indonesian contemporary art and the development of art infrastructure: influences, appropriations, and tensions / Rifky Effendy; title: Marginally successful: a brief account of two artist-run spaces / Michèle Faguet; title: Lost in translation? not if you create an alternative space for exchange / Aki Hoashi; title: Retaining regional differences / Viera Jancekova; title: Cultural (in) difference: the Portuguese contemporary art scene / Sergio Mah; title: On cultural hegemony and its implications for cultural production and artistic practice / Bartomeu Marí; title: No more hybrids, long live the clones: Greek art changing / Thanasis Moutsopoulos; title: Of Alladin's lamp and tigers & elephants; title: / Dr. Alka Pande; title: Regional emissaries: geographical platforms and the challenges of marginalization in contemporary Egyptian art / Dina Ramadan.