Contemporary Art and the Global Turn

Authors

Alexander Alberro
Academic Affairs, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Graduate Studies, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fine Arts Division, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Theory & History of Art & Design Department, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

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A newly-formed transnational web of individuals and institutions has in the past three decades fundamentally changed the nature of contemporary art. Highlighting artworks and projects that have sought to make visible, analyzable and contestable the new forms of exchange, “Contemporary Art and the Global Turn” probes not only what has led to this complex transformation but also the impact it has had on the current conditions of artistic practice. In what ways is recent art distinct from previous modes of contemporary art? What are the conventions that contemporary artists face today? Where are they shaped? What precipitates them?

Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin American Art (University of Chicago Press, 2017); Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT, 2003), and has edited books on contemporary art including Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke (MIT, 2016), Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists Writings; Art After Conceptual Art (MIT, 2009); Museum Highlights (MIT, 2005), Recording Conceptual Art (University of California, 2001), Two-Way Mirror Power (MIT 1999); and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT, 1999).

Alberro is also the founding editor of the University of California Press’ book series “Studies on Latin American Art,” which commissions publications of art history and cultural practices emerging from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Latin American diaspora in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Publication Date

4-4-2018

Publisher

Rhode Island School of Design

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Providence

Disciplines

Art and Design | Contemporary Art

Recommended Citation

Alberro, Alexander; Affairs, Academic; Studies, Graduate; Arts, Liberal; Division, Fine Arts; and Department, Theory & History of Art & Design, "Contemporary Art and the Global Turn" (2018). The Gradual Contemporary: Conversations on Contemporary Art. 6.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/havc_conversationsoncontemporaryart/6