Heritage and Debt
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,…
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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 creative use of tradition by artists from around the world serves as a means of combatting modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. Modernism claimed to live in the future and relegated the rest of the world to the past. Global contemporary art shatters this myth by reactivating various forms of heritage--from literati ink painting in China to Aboriginal painting in Australia--in order to propose new and different futures. Joselit analyzes not only
Heritage and Debt
Design and Heritage
Language of Money and Debt
Debt
Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Unpayable Debt
Railway Heritage and Tourism
Debt Cure
Blood Debt