Heritage and Debt
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…
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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, often by assigning it to the "traditional" societies of the Global South--global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present. Modernism claimed to live in the future and relegated the rest of the world to the past. 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.
Joselit analyzes not only 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.