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Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development
David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi
Looking back on twentieth century modernism from the standpoint of today, it seems that its major aesthetic component was actually provincialism. Across the world, different forms of social and economic modernization emerged, leading artists to develop new practices that broke from tradition to engage with these shifting circumstances. However, the early canonization of “modern art” in Western Europe, followed by the transfer of power to New York towards the middle of the century, meant that…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Contemporary Art, Modernism, Globalization
Subjects
Contemporaneity, Neoliberalism