2019-09-01
Tradition and transmission: Shifting epistemological and (art-)historical grounds of contemporary art’s relation to the past
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Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art , Volume 6 - Issue 2-3 p. 187- 206
This article takes artworks by Ai Weiwei that engage with traditions, art historical, art critical and curatorial receptions of these works, and (art-)historical discourses on the ‘critical problem of tradition’ as the starting point to re-consider contemporary art’s relationship with tradition. It adopts a critical global art historical perspective decentring universalized modern western frameworks and uncovering how contemporary art’s relation to the past in today’s spatially and temporally disjunctive global world has to be read from multiple and transculturally entangled historical, epistemological and geo-cultural perspectives.
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Critical global art history, Epistemologies and historiographies of art, Modern western binary thinking, Multiple and entangled, Temporal regime, Tradition, Transcultural, Transmission | |
dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00003_1 | |
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art | |
Organisation | School for Studies in Art and Culture |
Hopfener, B. (2019). Tradition and transmission: Shifting epistemological and (art-)historical grounds of contemporary art’s relation to the past. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(2-3), 187–206. doi:10.1386/jcca_00003_1
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