In addition to Claire Bishop’s talk at the Kadist SF:
Monday, September 17, 2012, 3:30 pm
BCNM Commons, Moffit Library, UC Berkeley
The global proliferation of museums of contemporary art since the late 1980s, together with the growth of contemporary art history as a comparable field in the academy, has given rise to a troubled relationship between the contemporary (understood as presentism) and history (as reflection on the past). Looking at recent interpretations of the “contemporary” as a category that supercedes the modern and post-modern, this paper argues that the contemporary can be understood as a reading of the past in terms of present-day urgencies…
