Heritage and Debt

Art in Globalization

David Joselit (Professor, Harvard University)

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English

MIT Press
10 March 2020

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Museums & museology; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: October Books

"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 how heritage becomes contemporary through the practice of individual artists but also how a cultural infrastructure of museums, biennials, and art fairs worldwide has emerged as a means of generating economic value, attracting capital and tourist dollars. Joselit traces three distinct forms of modernism that developed outside the West, in opposition to Euro-American modernism- postcolonial, socialist realism, and the underground. He argues that these modern genealogies are synchronized with one another and with Western modernism to produce global contemporary art. Joselit discusses curation and what he terms ""the curatorial episteme,"" which, through its acts of framing or curating, can become a means of recalibrating hierarchies of knowledge-and can contribute to the dual projects of decolonization and deimperialization."

By: David Joselit (Professor Harvard University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 24mm
ISBN: 9780262043694
ISBN 10: 0262043696
Series: October Books
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 10 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Joselit is Professor of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Infinite Regress- Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941, Feedback- Television against Democracy (both published by the MIT Press), American Art Since 1945, and After Art.

Reviews for Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization

"""The issues in Heritage and Debt need to be faced, for they won't go away. For that reason, this book matters."" – Hyperallergic ""What David Joselit offers in Heritage and Debt (2020) is a convincing description of the global and historical dynamics that produced 'contemporary art' as something distinct from what preceded it. For most observers of art and its history today, that question would be answered with some combination of 'postmodernism' and 'modernism,' which is not incorrect. But on Joselit’s account, that answer is both woefully incomplete and politically compromised."" – ArtReview"