Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization Fiction 8 x depth 3

8 x depth 3

Johannesburg

rural boys received education limited to training in agricultural skills

Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits

He argues that these modern genealogies are synchronised with one another and with Western modernism to produce global contemporary art

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization Fiction 8 x depth 3In this account of what globalisation means for contemporary art, David Joselit argues that the creative use of tradition by artists from around the world serves as a means of combatting modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. Joselit analyses not only how heritage becomes contemporary through the practice of individual artists but also how a cultural infrastructure of museums, biennials and art fairs worldwide has emerged as a means of generating