Biennials, Triennials and documenta (2016)

Cloth - 229 X 152 17mm all around to wrap + 3mm bleed / ISBN 9781444336641 / Spine 17.9mm THE EXHIBITIONS THAT CREATED CONTEMPORARY ART Cloth : Wiley-Blackwell - 229mm (H) + 6mm and documenta CHARLES GREEN is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Conceptualism to Postmodernism (2001) and Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970–94 (1995) and co-author of Framing Conlict: War, Peace and Aftermath (2014, with L. Brown and J. Cattapan). As Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria he co-curated Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002 (2002), world rush_4 artists (2003), 2004: Australian Visual Culture Now (ACMI/NGVA, 2004), and 2006: Contemporary Commonwealth (ACMI/ NGVA, 2006). Green is also an artist, working in collaboration with Lyndell Brown since 1989. ANTHONY GARDNER is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art against Democracy (2015), the editor of Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations (2013), and co-editor of NSK: From Kapital to Capital - Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (2015, with Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Cufer) and the journal ARTMargins. www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell Charles Green and Anthony Gardner Biennials, Triennials, Wiley-Blackwell - 152mm + 4mm for Front Cover Triennials, Biennials, Biennials, Triennials, and documenta With a comprehensive global array of case studies seamlessly connected through shrewd narrative analysis, this innovative new book will be essential reading for curatorial and museum studies students and scholars, aspiring curators, gallerists, and all those interested in the exhibition of contemporary art. Green Gardner In this engaging and insightful new treatise, Charles Green and Anthony Gardner examine in depth the history and popularization of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or “biennials,” and their impact on contemporary art since the 1950s. From the 1972 director-driven documenta 5 at Kassel to the rise of mega-exhibitions across Asia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the renewed ascendancy of gargantuan biennials in the twenty-irst century, Biennials, Triennials, and documenta offers a comprehensive history of biennialization that is global in scope. In addition to interrogating speciic curatorial models and methods, Green and Gardner use the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art. spine: 17.9mm and documenta Wiley-Blackwell - 152mm + 4mm for Back Cover THE EXHIBITIONS THAT CREATED CONTEMPORARY ART