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Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global

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By (author): Paloma Checa-Gismero

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions to become the global art worlds defining events at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the early post-Cold War years, Checa-Gismero examines the early iterations of three well-known biennials at the borders of North Atlantic liberalism: the Bienal de La Habana, inSITE, and Manifesta. She draws on archival and oral history fieldwork in Cuba, Mexico, the US/Mexico borderlands, and the Netherlands, showing how these biennials reflected a post-Cold War optimism for a pacified world by which artistic and knowledge production would help mend social, political, and cultural divisions. Checa-Gismero argues that, in reflecting this optimism, biennials facilitated the conversion of subaltern aesthetic genealogies into forms that were legible to a nascent cosmopolitan global eliteall under the pretense of cultural exchange. By outlining how early biennials set the basis for what is now recognized as global contemporary art, Checa-Gismero intervenes in previous accounts of the contemporary art world in order to better understand how it became the exclusionary, rarified institution of today. See more
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  • Weight: 703g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781478026280

About Paloma Checa-Gismero

Paloma Checa-Gismero is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.

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