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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 708
EAN: 9789056622336
ISBN: 9056622331
Label: NAi Publishers
Manufacturer: NAi Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 468
Publication Date: March 15, 2002
Publisher: NAi Publishers
Release Date: March 02, 2002
Sales Rank: 1259141
Studio: NAi Publishers
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How European is Europe? In Rotterdam, the 2001 Cultural Capital of Europe, curator Salah Hassan posed this question to 18 international artists. Yinka Shonibare, Jimmie Durham, Willem Boshoff, Heri Dono, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken Lum, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Keith Piper are just a few of the artists whose non-European perspective has been brought to bear on the contradictions between the official story of Europe and its everyday reality, where heterogeneity, hybridity, and cultural influences mutually determine the norm.
Edited by Iftikhar Dadi & Salah Hassan. Artists include: Willem Boshoff, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Heri Dono, Jimmie Durham, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken Lum, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare.
9.5 x 6.75 in.
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Unpacking Europe is an exciting collection of scholarly essays and artists' projects which interrogate the historical and contemporary meanings of Europe. Examining the construction of "Europeanness," this volume focuses on the contradictions between homogenizing official narratives and everyday realities of urban life, where heterogeneity and hybridity have long been the living norms. The theme is timely, given the political climate in Europe, its shifting demographics, and the rising xenophobia and hardening of immigration policies.
Published in conjunction with the major exhibition Unpacking Europe, initiated by Rotterdam 2001-Cultural Capital of Europe, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the volume includes a preface by Gilane Tawadros, and is composed of two parts:
Part One includes substantial essays by important scholars from around the globe rethinking various philosophical, historical, and cultural facets of Europe. The writers include Leslie Adelson, Martin Bernal, Rustom Bharucha, Susan Buck-Morss, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rey Chow, Jimmie Durham, Fatima Eltayeb, Okwui Enwezor, Fredric Jameson, Ali Mazrui, Natalie Melas, Apinan Poshyananda, Irit Rogoff, Naoki Sakai, Ted Swedenburg, and Slavoj Zizek.
Part Two focuses on the artists' projects. It includes commissioned essays on each of the artists by well-known art critics as well as reproductions of the artists' works. The participating artists are Willem Boshoff, Magdalena Campos ... Read More
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