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Return to the postcolony : specters of colonialism in contemporary art
- Title
- Return to the postcolony : specters of colonialism in contemporary art / T.J. Demos ; [editor, Leah Whitman-Salkin].
- Author
- Demos, T. J.
- Publication
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, ©2013.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Whitman-Salkin, Leah.
- Description
- 174 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm
- Summary
- In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of "reverse migration"--a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly. -- Publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Specters of colonialism in contemporary art
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169).
- Contents
- Introduction: Enter : the ghosts -- Sven Augustijnen's Spectropoetics -- A colonial hauntology : Vincent Meessen's Vita nova -- Ghostly affect : Zarina Bhimji's Yellow patch -- The haunting : Renzo Martens's Enjoy poverty -- A postcolonial monstrum : the photographs of Pieter Hugo -- Conclusion: Living with ghosts, justly.
- Call Number
- JQD 15-36
- ISBN
- 9783943365429 (pbk.)
- 3943365425 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 839241359
- Author
- Demos, T. J.
- Title
- Return to the postcolony : specters of colonialism in contemporary art / T.J. Demos ; [editor, Leah Whitman-Salkin].
- Imprint
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, ©2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Whitman-Salkin, Leah.
- Research Call Number
- JQD 15-36