1st Edition

Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art

By Anne Ring Petersen Copyright 2024
240 Pages 8 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 8 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration. The book introduces art historians and other scholars with a methodological interest in cultural analysis to the innovative concept of postmigration, offering a comprehensive introduction to the various meanings and... Read more

Introduction: contemporary art and the problem space of postmigration  1. Postmigration – a theoretical framework  2. A postmigrant perspective on art  3. Transcultural entanglements and the postmigrant imaginary  4. The emergence of a postmigrant epistemic community  5. Public monuments and postmigrant re-memorialization  6. Urban renewal and art in postmigrant public spaces  Afterword: imagining togetherness in difference otherwise

Biography

Anne Ring Petersen is Professor of Modern Culture and Contemporary Art at the University of Copenhagen.