Global Modernism: A View From New York
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.186872Keywords:
Eurocentrism, Global, Modern, Contemporary, PostcolonialAbstract
As an art critic, historian, and curator whose career began in New York City in 1980, I made a long journey from the Eurocentrism of my education to the global orientation of my current writing and teaching. The shift was propelled by my engagement with contemporary art: its “postmodern” character makes it inherently more open to a postcolonial perspective. Creating a global history of modernism from 1870 to 1970 remains a challenge, however. The conventional narrative of modern art as a series of formal innovations is inescapably sited in Europe and North America. The history of global modernism needs, instead, to address modern art as a series of responses to economic, social and political change.
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