Main entry:

Vikram, Anuradha, author.

Title & Author:

Decolonizing culture : essays on the intersection of art and politics / Anuradha Vikram.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

San Francisco : Art Practical Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

1 online resource (153 pages : illustrations)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.
Foreword / Bean Gilsdorf -- Introduction: Can art persist? -- I. Being there. -- The political biennale -- Whose museum is it anyway? -- The ethnicity exhibition -- Sweet and low -- The trouble with the Mission School -- Mimics and minstrels -- II. Doing well by doing good. -- Culture, class, and the new economy -- The business end of art -- Education on contingency -- Punk is dead, long live punk -- Divide/Conquer: artists confront the gentrification of urban space -- III. The immanent public. -- The painting -- Conceptualizing difference -- Toward the Black museum -- Learn where the meat comes from -- On disgust -- The body without organs -- Images. -- Afterword / Michele Carlson.

Summary:

"Anuradha Vikram's Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces. Originally published between 2013 and 2017 through Daily Serving's #Hashtags column, Vikram's text considers the specifics of equality and representation in the context of current events in the field of arts and culture in the United States and internationally. The columns cover a number of racially charged incidents in arts institutions during this period that received significant press attention, but little meaningful analysis. Vikram examines how arts institutions construct space and select programming in accordance with their expectations of their audience, and how a disconnect between the realities of contemporary urban demographics and the leadership at many arts institutions has led to controversy and embarrassment on numerous occasions. Contrasting with these case studies in institutional exclusion are a number of profiles of artists and artworks that bring art's potential for inclusivity to fruition, working within institutions as well as outside of them to bring change"--Back cover.

Resources:
Free eBook from the Internet Archive
Additional information and access via Open Library

ISBN:

(paperback)
9780998500652
0998500658

Subject:

Art Political aspects.
Decolonization in art.
Art and society.
Black people in art.
Race in art.
Black people Race identity In art.
Art Aspect politique.
Décolonisation dans l'art.
Art et société.
Personnes noires dans l'art.
Race dans l'art.
Personnes noires Identité ethnique Dans l'art.
political art.
Black people Race identity
Entkolonialisierung
Kunstsoziologie

Form/genre:

Art