Art and sovereignty in global politics / Edited by Douglas Howland, Elizabeth Lillehoj, and Maximilian Mayer.
Howland, Douglas editor; Lillehoj, Elizabeth editor; Mayer, Maximilian editor
2017
NA72.P6 A73 2017
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Title Art and sovereignty in global politics / Edited by Douglas Howland, Elizabeth Lillehoj, and Maximilian Mayer.
ISBN 9781349950164 (electronic book)
1349950165 (electronic book)
9781349950157
1349950157
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95016-4
Published New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan [2017].
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-349-95016-4 doi
Call Number NA72.P6 A73 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 701.03
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Summary This volume aims to question, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Chapters consider the intertwining of political structures and modernist artistic forms, including the relationships between nationalism and official portraiture, museums and cultural property, and territoriality and architectural history. Other chapters examine populist politics that emerged as art became commercialized and mediated, engaging industrial design and popular entertainment industries, and producing national and minority cinema, ethnic crafts for domestic markets, and performance art that contests national citizenship. In exploring the nexus of art and sovereignty, contributors highlight power relations and provide critical commentary on repercussions of colonialism and notions of universal truths rooted in Western ideals. By interfering with established dichotomies related to art and sovereignty, all contributors fuel a resistance to traditional definitions of "Art" and encourage a new perspective on the co-constitution of artworks and practices of sovereignty.
Note This volume aims to question, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Chapters consider the intertwining of political structures and modernist artistic forms, including the relationships between nationalism and official portraiture, museums and cultural property, and territoriality and architectural history. Other chapters examine populist politics that emerged as art became commercialized and mediated, engaging industrial design and popular entertainment industries, and producing national and minority cinema, ethnic crafts for domestic markets, and performance art that contests national citizenship. In exploring the nexus of art and sovereignty, contributors highlight power relations and provide critical commentary on repercussions of colonialism and notions of universal truths rooted in Western ideals. By interfering with established dichotomies related to art and sovereignty, all contributors fuel a resistance to traditional definitions of "Art" and encourage a new perspective on the co-constitution of artworks and practices of sovereignty.
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Dedication; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Art and Sovereignty; Evolving Artistic and Political Spheres; Interdisciplinary Dialogue; Conceptual Perspectives; Art and the Sovereign Protection of Property Rights; National Imaginations, Museums, and Restitution; Global Order and Cultural Hierarchies; Commodification of Art and Globalizing Configurations of Markets; Art and Competing Forms of Sovereign Rule; Art as a Vehicle for Conveying National and Subnational Identities; Conclusions; Notes.

Chapter 2: Space and Sovereignty: A Reverse PerspectiveIntroduction: Art, Politics, and the Archaeology of Sovereignty; The Space of Art: Sovereignty of Perspective and Materialization of the Gaze; The Space of Sovereignty: Immanence of Power and Violence of the Gaze; Conclusion: Into the World Picture; Notes; Chapter 3: The International Movement to Protect Literary and Artistic Property; The Growth of an International Movement; The Author's Right/Le droit d'auteur; What Constitutes "Art"?; Sovereign Disagreements; The Duration of Rights; The Right of Translation.

Toward an International Public DomainNational Public Domains; An International Public Interest; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Dongbei, Manchukuo, Manchuria: Territory, Artifacts, and the Multiple Bodies of Sovereignty in Northeast Asia; Sovereignty and Material Culture Studies: A Background; Wartime China; Wartime Japan; Wartime and Postwar America; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Claims; Notes; Chapter 6: Stolen Buddhas and Sovereignty Claims; Laws and Conventions on Art Repatriation; The Current State (of) Repatriation of Buddhas: A Success Story.

Repatriation and Restrictions on the Antiquities MarketRepatriation Denied: Museums' Colonial Legacy in Deep Time; What Is the Status of Icons?: Artistic and/or Religious Objects; Breaking the Law to Save an Icon/Defying the World to Destroy Others; Solutions on the Horizon; Notes; Chapter 7: Art by Dispossession at El Paso Saddleblanket Company: Commodification and Graduated Sovereignty in Global Capitalism; The Social Biography of Artworks in the Neoliberal Era; From Art by Appropriation to Art by Dispossession; From Primitive Accumulation to Dispossession.

Art by Dispossession: Object Biography #1 Art by Dispossession: Object Biography #2; Art by Dispossession: Object Biography #3; Graduated Sovereignty and Navajo Knock-Off Textiles as Enterprising Subjects; Notes; Chapter 8: Claiming Sovereignty Through Equestrian Spectacle in Northern Cameroon; Juulde Layhaaji, March 18, 2000; Touring the City; Fantasia as an Anachronism; Continued Significance of Fantasia; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Identity and Sovereignty in Asian Art Cinema: Digital Diaspora Films of South Korea and Malaysia.

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