Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization

by David Joselit

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.

If European modernism was premised on the new--on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the "traditional" societies of the Global South--global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present. In this account of what globalization means for contemporary art, David Joselit argues that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043696
• ISBN13: 9780262043694
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.1"