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Wood, Paul
(2011).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2011.608974
Abstract
The author discusses the consequences of the academicisation of the social history of art, the way in which a project that was initially a response to pressing issues both inside and outside the academy has become increasingly institutionalised. To restore a wider relevance, he argues the need to open art history to the requirements of a contemporary ‘global imperative’, to play its part in the study of a global field of visual culture. But this is not simply a question of expanding the remit of existing art history. The focus is on the consequences for emergent world art studies of a critical engagement with the legacy of both modernism and conceptual art. The author considers four aspects of this: the impact of the decline of modernist binaries of ‘high/low’, and of ‘mainstream/provincial’, the idea of the autonomy of art, and contrasting definitions of the nature of ‘art’ itself.
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- Item ORO ID
- 30782
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1475-5297
- Keywords
- world art studies; modernism; expanded field; avant-garde; autonomy; globalisation; John Baines; Whitney Davis; Paul Oskar Kristeller; Paul Wood
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2011 Third Text
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- Paul Wood