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This course emphasizes the critical role of locality and place in understanding art and its political implications. We will explore modern and contemporary art from this perspective, with a focus on the ways in which geographic and other spatial contexts shape artistic production, but also circulation and reception. Examining a diverse range of art practices, we will analyze how artists negotiate their positioning within artworld power structures to challenge dominant narratives, notions of space and place, transcend borders and more. The course will also address critical concepts and binary frameworks, such as the center, periphery, urban, rural, local, global, transnational spaces, borderlands, ecological and environmental landscapes. The aim is to develop a clear understanding of art and art history’s enduring interest in place, location and geography. Active and prepared participation is an essential part of this course. Please note that a maximum of two absences are allowed.
Readings:
- Joselit, David, Art’s Properties. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Juneja, Monica, Can Art History be made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
- Tatiana Reinoza, Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.
- Jakubowska, Agata and Magdalena Radomska, Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices. London: Routledge, 2022.
- Biemann, Ursula. Geografie und die Politik der Mobilität/Geography and the Politics of Mobility. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2003.
- Meskimmon, Marsha. Contemporary art and the cosmopolitan imagination. London: Routledge, 2011.
- Okeke-Agulu, Chika, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
- Hou, Hanru. How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in the Global Age. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2003.
- Lippard, Lucy. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The new press, 1997.
- DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas. Toward a Geography of Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Lisette Lagnado, ed. Cultural Anthropophagy: the 24th Bienal de Sāo Paulo 1998. London: Afterall, 2015.
- Scott, Emily Eliza, Kirsten J. Swenson, eds. Critical landscapes: art, space and politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
- Dear, Michael, et al, eds. Geohumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. London: Routledge, 2011.
- Myvillages, ed. The Rural. Cambridge: MIT press, 2019.
- Dogramaci and Birgit Mersmann, eds. Handbook of Art and Global Migration: Theories, Practices and Challenges. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019
- Miyamoto, Bénédicte and Marie Ruiz, eds. Art and Migration: Revisioning the Border of Community. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. |
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