Biennials, Triennials, and documenta : the exhibitions that created contemporary art
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Biennials, Triennials, and documenta : the exhibitions that created contemporary art
Wiley Blackwell, 2016
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
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Description
This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s.
Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s
Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Mediterranee in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York's Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014
Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene
Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art
Table of Contents
Preface vii Introduction 3
Part 1 The SecondWave
1 1972: The Rise of the Star-Curator 19
2 1979: Cultural Translation, Cultural Exclusion, and the Second Wave 49
3 1986: The South and the Edges of the Global 81
Part 2 The Politics of Legitimacy
4 1989: Asian Biennialization 111
5 1997: Biennials, Migration, and Itinerancy 145
Part 3 Hegemony or a New Canon
6 2002: Cosmopolitanism 183
7 2003: Delegating Authority 209
8 2014: Global Art Circuits 241
9 Conclusion 272
Index 279
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