The Global Contemporary Art World.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction: "Global," "Contemporary," "Art," "World" -- Entering the Maze -- Modernity, Contemporary Art and Globalization -- Five Asian Centers within the Global Contemporary Art World -- Global Crash, Crises and the Art World -- Contemporary Art in the Friezer -- 1 Doing the Business -- Hong Kong Gets the Art Basel Treatment -- Offshore Art Business in the Global Neoliberal Capitalist Economy -- Combined and Uneven Development in the Hong Kong Art World -- Hong Kong's Art World Inside and Outside China -- 2 New Media Art and Cultural Globalism in South Korea -- The Chic of Global "New Media Art" -- Contemporary Art as Global Cultural Diplomacy -- "Glocal Video": Conventions and Critiques -- Culture, Contemporaneity and the Postcolonial Artwork -- The "Real DMZ Project": Conflict Art in the Korean Peninsula -- Contemporary Art Across Global Asia -- 3 Globalizing Indian Contemporary Art -- The Kochi Biennale Big Sell -- Kochi as a Global Venue -- Art at Kochi: Liberal Pluralism Versus Social Engagement with Globalization? -- The Highs and Lows of Art, Media and Kochi Biennale Capital -- Utopian Rhetoric in Contemporary Art at the Kochi Biennale -- 4 Social Reproduction of Contemporary Art in the People's Republic of China -- Art and Design Education as a Globalization Process -- Changing Identifications in Art and Design Education in China -- Contemporary Chinese Art Marketed for Global Consumption -- Chinese Art and the World Art System -- 5 Contemporary Art and Post-National Identities in the State of Palestine -- "Palestine is Open for Business"! -- Grounding the Culture Industry in Palestine -- Palestinian Museums-of-art-in-waiting -- The "NGO-ization" of the Contemporary Art World in the State of Palestine -- Concrete into Dust.

Conclusion: Motifs of Global Fracture in the Art Of Bashir Makhoul and Wang Guofeng -- Re-Entering the Maze -- In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni -- Utopian Photo-Mythologies -- Aesthetic and Social Implications of Digital Photography -- The One and the Multitude in the World Order/Disorder -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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