Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Collection of essays by art historians and cultural theorists on what it means for art to be contemporary in the wake of postmodernism.

List of Illustrations ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments sviiIntroduction: The Contemporaneity Question / Terry Smith 1Part I: The Politics of Temporality1. Contemporaneity between Modernity and Postmodernity / Antonio Negri 232. A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary / Geeta Kapur 303. Some Rotten Shoots from the Seeds of Time / Rosalind Krauss 604. The Topology of Contemporary Art / Boris Groys 71Part 2: Multiple Modernities5. On the Contingency of Modernity and the Persistence of Canons / Monica Amor 836. Politics of Flexible Subjectivity: The Event Work of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik 977. Double Modernity, Para-Modernity / Jonathan Hay 1138. "Particular Time, Specific Space, My Truth": Total Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art / Gao Minglu 1339. The Perils of Unilateral Power: Neomodernist Metaphors and the New Global Order / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie 16510. Analogue: 1998-2007 / Zoe Leonard, Introduced by Helen Molesworth 187Part 3: Afterworlds11. The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition / Okwui Enwezor 20712. From Emigration to E-migration: Contemporaneity and the Former Second World / Nancy Condee 23513. Aftermath: Value and Violence in Contemporary South African Art / Colin Richards 25014. A Case of Being "Contemporary": Conditions, Spheres, and Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art / Wu Hung 290Part 4: Cotemporalities15. Emancipation or Attachments? The Different Futures of Politics / Bruno Latour 30916. The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art and Criticism / James Meyer 32417. Introduction to Info-Aesthetics / Lev Manovich 33318. The Giftshop at the End of History / McKenzie Wark 34519. Spatial Aesthetics: Rethinking the Contemporary / Nikos Papastergiadis 363References 383Contributors 413Index 417