Identity Theft The Cultural Colonization Of Contemporary Art

By Jonathan Harris

Subjects: Art and society, Art, Congresses, Exhibitions, Art, latin american, Cultural property, Group identity in art, Painting, modern, 20th century, Art, political aspects, South American Art, Arts and society, Modern Painting, Modern Art, Cultural relations, Art, modern, Political aspects

Description: "Identity Theft asks some tough questions about the use and place of art in the early twenty-first century: How has it been appropriated as a form of advertising or corporate identity? How is it made the vehicle of novel nationalisms and historical re-inventions engineered by nation-states and their current ideologies of identity and cultural value? At the same time, with a cold eye, its contributors consider whether contemporary artists are in any position to resist these forms of incorporation, or even have any desire to."--Jacket.