The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

by Caroline A. Jones

Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists' engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world's fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that "globalism" was incubated in a century of international art contests and today constitutes an important tactic for artists.

As world's fairs brought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629174X
• ISBN13: 9780226291741
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 4.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.8" x 11.2"