Art, Geopolitics and Metapolitics at Tate Galleries London
@article{Ingram2017ArtGA, title={Art, Geopolitics and Metapolitics at Tate Galleries London}, author={Allan Ingram}, journal={Geopolitics}, year={2017}, volume={22}, pages={719 - 739} }
ABSTRACT Art galleries and museums have often been considered as sites at which the international and the political are both enacted and reworked. But how exactly does art ‘do’ geopolitics? Taking existing work on art and geopolitics in the gallery and museum as its departure point, this article advances a specific conceptual argument for how art does geopolitics that connects thinking in this area with broader debates in aesthetics and politics. Building on Jacques Rancière’s account of art as…
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