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In the 21st century, the experience of leaving home and crossing national boundaries belongs to ever-growing numbers of persons. Whether escaping persecution or seeking work, fleeing hopelessness or striving for creative opportunities, each migrant?like all others throughout history who sought a distant new life?steps into a foreign world where much is strange and alien. This timely book explores the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject in the world of art, as well as the ways in which the mobilities of our globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display.The title of the volume is taken from an essay by Ranajit Guha in which he considers the conditions of alienation and exclusion that are so inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. In a collection of thought-provoking essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism address the universality of conditions of global migration and invite a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies. They also suggest exciting new empirical and theoretical directions for each of these traditional frameworks.Book News Annotation:The title signifies both the temporality of the experience of being a migrant, and a stage of the world filled with migrants. Historians, critics, and practitioners of art explore how the theme of migration as arrived in the visual arts. The topics include Mona Hatoum's logic on irreconcilable, when art history actually begins in the Black diaspora, guest workers and Alvaro Siza's Bonjour Tristesse housing for the Berlin Housing Exhibition, Zarina Hashmi and the arts of dispossession, and transaesthetics in the photographs of Shirin Neshat. Distributed in the US by Yale University Press. Annotation ?2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Synopsis:The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display.In a wide-ranging selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
