After the event : new perspectives on art history

Introduction / Charles Merewether and John Potts -- PART I: REWRITING GLOBAL VISUAL CULTURE -- 1. Two cures: making art visible / Boris Groys -- 2. Land and Sea: 'In the beginning all the world was America' / Mitchell Dean -- 3. Migration as spatial fantasy / Ackbar Abbas -- 4. Masters of the gap: art, migration and eido-kinesis / Paul Carter -- 5. The world is not enough / Rex Butler -- PART II: NEW ART HISTORIES: OTHER MODERNITIES -- 6. Wins and/or losses in recent Eastern European art history / Lolita Jablonskiene -- 7. Interrupted histories / Zdenka Badovinac -- 8. Aesthetic experience and the power of the artwork / Antje Denner -- 9. Crisis and convening: or, what is it that we want from art conferences? / Lee Weng Choy -- Part III: MEMORY: DOCUMENTARY AND THE ARCHIVAL -- 10. Archival futures: on Kawara and the date from which all things begin, again / Charles Merewether -- 11. Mortal remains / Geera Kapur -- 12. Expressivity: the art of documentary practice / Michael Renov -- 13. Documentary in the age of the remix / Kathryn Millard -- 14. Contact lenses: cinaesthesia in the museum / Laleen Jayamanne -- Part IV: THE EVENT AND RE-ENACTMENT -- 15. The event and its echoes / John Potts -- 16. 'The truth will be known when the last witness is dead': history not memory / Peter Osborne -- 17. 'What if someone in New Zealand wants to see it?' Performance art's cover versions / Edward Scheer -- 18. When the present comes to get you / Jane Goodall.243 page(s

Ai Weiwei : According To What? = 艾未未

"A leading figure among the Chinese artists of his generation, Ai Weiwei creates art that transcends East/West cultural dualities and focuses on fundamental artistic, cultural, and social questions. Published in conjunction with the first North American survey of this celebrated and provocative artist's career, this volume offers a valuable introduction to the full spectrum of Ai Weiwei's work--from photographs and sculpture to documentation of several of his most well-known projects, including his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron on the "bird's nest" stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. More recent works, several made specifically for this tour, address his ongoing investigation of the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, as well as his responses to his detention and continual surveillance by Chinese authorities. The book contains essays by exhibition curator Mami Kataoka, art historian Charles Merewether, and an interview between the Hirshhorn's chief curator Kerry Brougher and the artist" -- p. [4] of cover