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ARTD 3169/Grad ARTD 7165 Global Contemporary Art: From 1945 to the Present: Further Resources

Alternative textbook for Mona Hadler's course

Current (2021): Selective Bibliography

Selective Bibliography:

Theory and Global Art History Books

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, 1994

Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 2004

Zoya Kocur, Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985, Blackwell Publishing, second edition 2012

Ruth B Philips and Christopher B. Steiner, Unpacking Culture Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds—“My Father’s Business”

Jean Fisher, ed. Global Visions: Toward a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press, 1994

Elain O'Brien et al, eds. Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms, John Wiley, 2013

Charles Greene and Anthony Gardner, Biennials, Triennials and Documenta, The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art, 2016

Hans Belting, The Global Contemporary and the rise of new art worlds, 2013

Lucy Steeds, Making Art Global, Part 2, Magiciens de la Terre, 2013

Okwei Enwezor, Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, 2017

Kobena Mercer, Discrepant Abstraction, MIT 2006

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963-83, Tate London, 2019

Pepe Karmel, Global Abstraction, Thames and Hudson, 2020

Postwar Europe

Frances Morris and Sarah Wilson, Paris Postwar, Art and Existentialism l945-55, Tate, l993

Antonin Artaud, Works on Paper, ed. Margit Rowell, Museum of Modern Art, 1996

Carter Curtis, Jean Fautrier 1898-1964, Yale, 2002

Rachel E. Perry, “Jean Fautrier’s Jolies Juives,” October, Vol 108, Spring 2004, 51-72

Susan Cooke in, Jean Dubuffet 1943-63, Hirshhorn Museum 1993

Julia Robinson, New Realisms: 1957-1962, MIT Press, 2010

David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Phaidon, 1993

David Robbins, The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, 1990

Richard Hamilton, October Files, MIT Press, 2010

Petra Lange-Berndt, Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries, The 1970’s, 2011

Hendricks, Jon. “Yoko Ono and Fluxus.” In Yes: Yoko Ono, edited by J. Hendricks and A. Munroe. New York: Japan Society and H. N. Abrams, 2000.

Hiroko Ikegami, The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art, MIT 2010

Gerhardt Richter, MOMA, 2002

John Curley, A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhardt Richter and the Art of the Cold War, Yale, 2013

Sid Sachs and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversions: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968, Brooklyn Museum, 2010

Kalliopi Minioudaki, “Pop Ladies and Bad Girls: Axell, Pauline Boty and Rosalyn Drexler,” Oxford Art Journal, 2007

Sabine Schaschle, Omer Fast: In Memory, 2010

"Ostalgia", curated by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum, 2011

Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger, A Life Between Two Islands, 2018

Kobena Mercer, Frank Bowling, Mappa Mundi, 2017Eddie Chambers, Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain, I. B. Tauris & Co., (2017)

Latin America

The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930’s in the Western Hemisphere, ed. Alejandro Anreus, Penn State Press

Ramirex and Olea, Inverted Utopias: Avant Garde Art in Latin America, Yale, 2004

Robert Stam, Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film, 1992

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, 1994

Luis Camnitzer, et. al, eds. Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, NY: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.

Carlos Basualdo, Tropicalia, A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, 2005

Mari Carmen Ramírez (ed.), Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color (exh. cat.), London: Tate Publishing, 2007

Lygia Clark, Whitney Museum Catalogue, 2018

Asia

Bert Winther-Tamaki, Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years, University of Hawaii Press, 2001

Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters-Art Architecture and Activism, Exhibition Catalogue, Brooklyn Museum, 2014

Alexandra Monroe, Gutai: Splendid Playground, Guggenheim Museum, 2013

Sook-Kyung Lee, Nam June Paik, 2011

The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huan, Routledge, 2007

Jeffrey Wechsler, Asian Traditions, Modern Expressions, 1997

Wu Hung and Peggy Wang, Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, 2010

Winnie Won Yin Wong, Van Gogh on Demand, China and the Readymade, 2013

Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, Univ. of California Press, 1994

Chang-Tai Hung, Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic, Cornell University Press, 2011

 Art in Turmoil, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, ed Richard King, 2010

The Third Mind, American Artists Contemplate Asia, Alexandra Munroe, Guggenheim Museum

Joan Kee, Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method, University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Middle East

Gideon Ofrat, One hundred Years of Israeli Art, 1998

Fereshteh Daftari, Without Boundary, MOMA, 2006

Fereshteh Daftari, Iran Modern, Asia Society, 2014

Fereshteh Daftari, Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2020

Iftikahr Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia, 2010

Geeta Kapur, What was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, 2000

Iftikhar Dadi, Art in Pakistan: The First Decades in Hanging Fire Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Salima Hashmi ed., Asia Society, 2009

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Africa

Elizabeth Harney, In Senghor’s Shadow: Art Politics and the Avant Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995, 2004

David Adjaye, Thelma Golden, Okweui Enwezor, Chris Ofili, 2009

Okwei Enwezor and Chika Okele-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, 2009

Okwei Enwezor, The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-94, 2001

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, African Art and the Colonial Encounter, Inventing a Global Commodity, Indiana U Press, 2007

Jaimey Hamilton Farris, Uncommon Goods, Global Dimension of the Readymade, 2013

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skins White Masks

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic

Book list: text

Selective Bibliography:

Asia

Bert Winther-Tamaki, Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years, University of Hawaii Press, 2001

Ai Weiwei: Spatial Matters-Art Architecture and Activism, Exhibition Catalogue, Brooklyn Museum, 2014

Alexandra Monroe, Gutai: Splendid Playground, Guggenheim Museum, 2013

Sook-Kyung Lee, Nam June Paik, 2011

The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huan, Routledge, 2007

Jeffrey Wechsler, Asian Traditions, Modern Expressions, 1997

Wu Hung and Peggy Wang, Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, 2010

Winnie Won Yin Wong, Van Gogh on Demand, China and the Readymade, 2013

Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, Univ. of California Press, 1994

 

Chang-Tai Hung, Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic, Cornell University Press, 2011

 

 Art in Turmoil, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, ed Richard King, 2010

 

 

Middle East

Gideon Ofrat, One hundred Years of Israeli Art, 1998

Fereshteh Daftari, Without Boundary, MOMA, 2006

Fereshteh Daftari, Iran Modern, Asia Society, 2014

Iftikahr Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia, 2010

Shahzia Sikander

Geeta Kapur, What was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, 2000

 

Iftikhar Dadi, Art in Pakistan: The First Decades in Hanging Fire Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Salima Hashmi ed., Asia Society, 2009

https://nyti.ms/2mtTnZi  on walid raad

 

 

Africa

 

David Adjaye, Thelma Golden, Okweui Enwezor, Chris Ofili, 2009

Okwei Enwezor and Chika Okele-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, 2009

Enwezor in the Short Century

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, African Art and the Colonial Encounter, Inventing a Global Commodity, Indiana U Press, 2007

Jaimey Hamilton Farris, Uncommon Goods, Global Dimension of the Readymade, 2013

Kobena Mercer, Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s. Duke University Press, 2016

Elizabeth Harney, In Senghor’s Shadow: Art Politics and the Avant Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995, 2004

Theory and Global Art History Books

Books on Art in Latin America

Books on Asia

Books on Art in Postwar Europe