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Title Global visions : towards a new internationalism in the visual arts / edited by Jean Fisher
Published London : Kala Press in association with the Institute of International Visual Arts, 1994

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Description xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents New internationalism, or the multiculturalism of global Bantustans / Rasheed Araeen -- The artist as ethnographer? / Hal Foster -- Recodifying a non-existent field / Guillermo Santamarina -- 'Perfidious fidelity' : the untranslatability of the other / Sarat Maharaj -- A new inter nationalism : the missing hyphen / Geeta Kapur -- A brief note on internationalism / Olu Oguibe -- Will the 'new internationalism' be the same old story? : some art historical considerations / Judith Wilson -- Entropy; Chinese artists, western art institutions : a new internationalism / Hou Hanru
The centre of otherness / Everlyn Nicodemus -- The case of the missing body : a cultural mystery in several parts / Gilane Tawadros -- A friend of mine said that art is a European invention / Jimmie Durham -- The non-sovereign self (diaspora identities) / Gordon Bennett -- Some problems in transcultural curating / Gerardo Mosquera -- Practice of exhibitions in global society for Asians, by Asians, and some associated problems / Raiji Kuroda -- The silent message of the museuem / Fred Wilson -- Curator's work : the pragmatics of internationalism / Elisabeth Sussman
Summary "Global visions: towards a new internationalism in the visual arts presents the collected papers of the Institute of International Visual Arts Symposium, 'A New Internationalism', held at the Tate Gallery in London in April 1994. The publication brings together some of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in the visual arts in a provocative critique of notions of internationalism, the role of curatorial practice, particularly in relation to the debates on cultural identity and difference, and the nature of innovation in visual culture at the end of the millennium."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Society Role of Arts
Notes "This publication brings together the papers delivered at the conference entitled 'A new internationalism,' the first conference of the Institute of International Visual Arts held at the Tate Gallery in London on 27 and 28 April 1994."--P. ix
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
Internationalism in art -- Congresses.
Internationalism -- Congresses.
Multiculturalism -- Congresses.
Multiculturalism.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Fisher, Jean, 1942-
Institute of International Visual Arts.
LC no. 95233682
ISBN 0947753052 (paperback)