Wood, Paul
(2011).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2011.608974 |
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Third Text |
| 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/Department: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Art History, Classical Studies, English and Creative Writing, Music Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 30782 |
| Depositing User: | Paul Wood |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2012 16:32 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 14:09 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30782 |
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