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The Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History of the University of Florida presents: Art in the Age of Globalization: Directions in Contemporary Art since 1989
University of Florida, March 2-4, 2006
"Art in the Age of Globalization: Directions in Contemporary Art Since 1989" brought together a select group of art historians, cultural critics, artists and theorists to explore the changing meaning of art in an era of globalization.
The way we understand culture changed fundamentally following the collapse of what from 1945-1989 had been known as the Second World. With no geopolitical counterweight, global capitalism has expanded in an unprecedented way and the leverage communism once provided to the decolonizing Third World nations seeking to develop their national cultures has dissolved. Suddenly, culture both consolidated and expanded at the same time. No longer the property of nations or smaller identity-political forms and now long removed from the domain of art and artists, culture has been thoroughly industrialized and everything has become culture. With the success of the culture industries, the oppositions and hierarchies that formerly defined high art and mass culture have been rendered obsolete, as have any remaining distinctions between modernism and contemporary art.