{"product_id":"biennials-triennials-and-documenta-the-exhibitions-that-created-contemporary-art-9781444336658","title":"Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art","description":"This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York's Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 \u003ci\u003eDocumenta11 \u003c\/i\u003ein Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Gardner,Charles Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781444336658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Green\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003ePeripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eFraming Conflict: War, Peace and Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e (2014, with L. Brown and J. Cattapan). As Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria he co-curated \u003ci\u003eFieldwork: Australian Art 1968-\u003c\/i\u003e2002 (2002), \u003ci\u003eworld rush_4 artists \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), \u003ci\u003e2004: Australian Visual Culture Now \u003c\/i\u003e(ACMI\/NGVA, 2004), and \u003ci\u003e2006: Contemporary Commonwealth \u003c\/i\u003e(ACMI\/NGVA, 2006). Green is also an artist working in collaboration with Lyndell Brown since 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePolitically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art Against Democracy \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), the editor of \u003ci\u003eMapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) and a co-editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eArtMargins\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44796798271603,"sku":"9781444336658","price":66.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ecc25cbd-d000-487d-822b-2105f37028cc.jpg?v=1776560430","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/biennials-triennials-and-documenta-the-exhibitions-that-created-contemporary-art-9781444336658","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}