TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steeds, Lucy
AU  - Frédéric Bruly
AU  - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
AU  - Jean Fisher
AU  - Jean-Hubert Martin
AU  - Jean-Marc Poinsot
AU  - Pablo Lafuente
AU  - Rasheed Araeen
AU  - Thomas McEvilley
TI  - Making Art Global (Part 2) : : 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989
T2  - Afterall Exhibition Histories
SN  - 9783863352585
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Afterall Books
KW  - N5300-7418 Visual Arts- History
N2  - Part of series: Afterall Exhibition Histories. "Magiciens de la Terre" was an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, it aimed to counter the ethnic bias and colonial complicity of the contemporary art world. Martin chose 100 artists from around the world: 50 from first-world cultures such as the U.S. and Europe and 50 from cultures then routinely ignored by the art market, in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia. "I want to play the role of someone who uses artistic intuition alone to select objects which come from totally different cultures," Martin explained. "I also want to incorporate into that process the critical thinking which contemporary anthropology provides on the problem of ethnocentrism." With photographs and gallery plans, this volume revisits the exhibition. In this fourth book in Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series, photographs and gallery plans reconstruct the exhibition in detail. Essays provide an extended examination of its history and context and look at the discursive and curatorial legacy, and responses from the time. Included are interviews with Jean-Hubert Martin by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and with Alfredo Jaar by Francisco Godoy Vega
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