Black Phoenix: Third World Perspective on Contemporary Art and Culture

"This publication is a compilation of all three issues of the journal Black Phoenix published as a single volume. Edited and published by Rasheed Araeen and Mahmood Jamal between 1978 and 1979 in the United Kingdom, Black Phoenix remains a key and radical document of transnational solidarity and cultural production in the visual arts, literature, activism, and beyond." -- Publisher's website

Making Art Global (Part 2) : Magiciens de la terre 1989

"In 1989, an exhibition in Paris united the work of over a hundred artists and, since only half would be described as Western, it radically challenged the Western art system from within. ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ argued for the universality of the creative impulse and endeavoured to offer direct aesthetic experience of contemporary works of art made globally and presented on equal terms. Photographs and gallery plans reconstruct the exhibition in detail, and an essay by Lucy Steeds provides an extended examination of its history, context and choices. A new essay by Jean-Marc Poinsot looks at the discursive legacy, while another by Pablo Lafuente inscribes 'Magiciens de la Terre' within the wider history of exhibition practice. Additional texts include a programmatic statement by curator Jean-Hubert Martin, and an interview with Benjamin Buchloh addressing his plans right before the opening. These are accompanied by responses from the time by Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher and Thomas McEvilley, as well as a previously unpublished paper Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak presented at the colloquium that accompanied the exhibition. Recent reassessments of the show by participating artists Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Alfredo Jaar and Barbara Kruger are also included. This title is a companion to Making Art Global (Part 1) : The Third Havana Biennial 1989" -- p. [4] of cover

Beauty

"Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art." -- Publisher's website

Global Visions : Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts

This anthology includes 16 essays by as many authors on the topic of a new internationalism in art. Among the topics discussed: the problem of ethnography for the arts; the problem of creating meaning through the museum; issues of difference, curatorship, and exhibiting. Biographical notes on writers. Circa 100 bibl. ref