Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization : A Transregional Perspective (Paperback)

Introduction (Octavian Esanu);  Part I;  1. Towards a Historical Understanding of Post-Soviet Presentism (Angela Harutyunyan);  2. The Long-Lasting Present: Art, Duration, and Contemporaneity (Pedro Erber);  3. Periodizing Latin American Art Since the 1960s (Karen Benezra);  4. Neue Osteuropaische Kunst: The Global Contemporary and the Eastern European Retrocontemporary (Ivana Bago);  5. Art Form and Nation Form: Contemporary Art and the Postnational Condition (Octavian Esanu);  6. Three Questions for Terry Smith: Peripherality, Postmodernity, Multiplicity ? Reconceiving the Origins of Contemporary Art (Interview with Terry Smith, with Octavian Esanu);  Part II;  Case Study 1: Nove Tendencije 2 [New Tendencies 2], Gallery of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 1963 (Ivana Bago);  Case Study 2: Rabinec Studio: The Commodification of Art in Late Socialist Hungary, 1982?83 (Kristof Nagy);  Case Study 3: The 3rd Floor Cultural Movement, Yerevan 1987?1994 (Angela Haratyunyan);  Case Study 4: The First Sanayeh Plastic Arts Meeting, Ashkal Alwan Beirut 1995 (Natasha Gasparian);  Case Study 5: CarbonART 96 and The 6th Kilometer, SCCA Chi?in?u 1996 (Octavian Esanu);  Case Study 6: Meeting Point, SCCA Sarajevo 1997 (Amila Puzici);  Case Study 7: Khoj International Artists’ Workshop, Khoj International Artists’ Association, Modinagar 1997 (Sabih Ahmed and Nida Ghouse);  Case Study 8: Janja ?vegelj: Squash, ?kuc Gallery Ljubljana 1998 (Tev? Logar and Vladimir Vidmar);  Case Study 9: Al-Nitaq Festival of Art, Cairo 2000 and 2001 (Dina A. Mohamed)