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| Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating | 
| Authors: Jean-hubert Martin, Sara Arrhenius, David Carrier, Boris Groys, Kate Fowle, Dave Hickey, Geeta Kapur, Young Chul Lee, David Levi Strauss
Creator: Steven Rand And Heather Kouris
Publisher: apexart
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 366237
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 1933347104
EAN: 9781933347103
ASIN: 1933347104
Publication Date: April 2, 2007
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Curation on the move October 11, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this collection for the essay by Geeta Kapur, in conjunction with my work as curator of the forthcoming exhibition 'New Art from South Asia' scheduled to open at the Herbert, Coventry, in January 2009, to coincide with the opening of the new galleries.
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Kapur's presence in this collection is essential; as her position highlights the narrowness of approaches anchored in Western experiences and references alone (the proverbial 'CENTRE') [see the anthology 'Men in Black']--as if the rest of the world (the so-called PERIPHERY) did not count--and invites us to redefine 'internationalism' and the 'contemporary' through a series of cutural decenterings...
Her collection of essays 'When was Modernism' is a must for all those readers who aspire to open their perspectives on Art; i.e. on World Art, not just Art made according to Western neo-colonial values and preconceptions.
When will Art History and Art Criticism have the maturity to write themselves from multiple centers?
The default tag is to Jean-Hubert Martin I would suggest : Geeta Kapur...
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