Global Art in Local Art Worlds Changing Hierarchies of Value

Introduction: Global Art in Local Art Worlds and the Global Hierarchy of Value

Reflection 1: Going Beyond, notes on cultural valuations and spatial difference

Hou Hanru

1 Inhotim, an international tropical museum: Distinction and the canonization of Brazilian Avant-Gardes

Reflection 2: The tropics as convention and consecration

Reflection 3: Is there a Global Cannon? Reflections on World Art History

2 Ambivalent Art at the Tip of a Continent: the Zeitz MOCAA and its Quest for Global Recognition

Reflection 4: Recognition

Reflection 5: Ambivalence and the racial politics of value

3 A local universal modernity: World-Heritagizing Le Corbusier’s building for the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo

Reflection 6: The role of public statuary in the global circulation of ideas

Reflection 7: Provincializing the universal

4 Curatorship and authorization in Chinese contemporary art institutions

Reflection 8: Curation

Reflection 9: Authorization

5 From Mumbai to London: Co-constituting value in art from India via local and global circuits of valuation

Reflection 10: Validation and the global hierarchy of value: moving in a rugged landscape

Reflection 11: A mandala of value: A granular approach to art valuation across geopolitical fragments

6: Re-collecting, Re-classifying, Re-ordering: Indigenous Art and the Contemporary Australian Art Field

Reflection 12: Indigenous protagonism and its impact on the Brazilian art system

Reflection 13: Indigenous Art: Decolonization through the Looking Glass

Afterword: Agency and Hierarchy in the Creation of Aesthetic Value

Biography

Oscar Salemink is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Amélia Siegel Corrêa is an independent curator, researcher and a Lecturer in Art History at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil.

Jens Sejrup is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a joint appointment in the Departments of Anthropology and Cross-cultural and Regional Studies.

Vibe Nielsen is affiliated as postdoctoral researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK, where she is a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College.

"This timely and fascinating collection asks whether we have reached an important juncture in those all-important, yet rarely revealed, hierarchies of value that shape global discourses of art, culture and heritage. Going beyond decolonisation debates that privilege Europe and America, the essays here richly analyse other geographies, other institutional histories and practices, against a shifting global economy and geopolitics. Accessible and interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in international trends in the politics and policy of heritage, museums, and market circulations of art." - Tim Winter, National University of Singapore

"Artists and anthropologists have long been stimulated by each others’ methods and work. It’s therefore paradoxical that contemporary anthropology has shied away from interpreting or theorising the increasingly dynamic and prominent worlds of contemporary art. This book, which interweaves deeply researched case studies with reflections by some of the most eminent ethnographers and theorists working today reveals how fertile and exciting the field could be." - Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK