Art/histories in transcultural dynamics
Subtitle: narratives, concepts, and practices at work, 20th and 21st centuries
By: edited by Pauline Bachmann, Melanie Klein, Tomoko Mamine, Georg Vasold
Series: Berliner Schriften zur Kunst; Berliner Schriften zur Kunst
Publisher: Wilhelm Fink, Brill Deutschland
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Paderborn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9783770559398
Subjects: Modern Art; Congresses; History; Art; Art and anthropology; Kunst; Außereuropäische Kunst; Ästhetik; Ethnologie; Kulturanthropologie; Kunstwissenschaft
Description: "Since the late nineteenth century the conceptual and disciplinary frames of reference imposed upon non-European art have undergone a continual process of negotiation, transfiguration, and contestation. Indeed, artists, art critics, and art historians all over the world have challenged the categories of art that were created in European metropolises for the academic disciplines of art history and anthropology. Focusing on the themes of narrative, concept, and practice, this volume brings together fourteen essays that trace the complexities of this process during the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries. These essays explore how epistemic paradigms as well as "travelling" objects, cultural agents, and institutions set a number of transcultural negotiations into motion. By examining key cultural identities and concepts, including perceptions of the avant-garde and modernity as well as concomitant notions of authenticity and originality, they analyse the dynamics that make up artistic production and discourses on art."--Front cover flap
Notes: International conference proceedings.

"This volume gathers together fourteen essays originally presented at the conference 'Questioning Narratives, Negotiating Frameworks. Art/Histories in Transcultural Dynamics, Late 19th to Early 21st Centuries,' which was held from 5 to 7 December 2013 at the Department of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Kunst in Berlin."--p.[7]

Includes bibliographical references and index.