At the end of the 1980s, anthropologist Néstor García Canclini argued that inequality originates in the relationship between global and local, and affects the modes of industrial, economic, and legislative production. In recent decades, art historians have developed an anthropological approach, assuming that a focus on the person as individual subject and social component can be useful for deconstructing hegemonic discourses that intrinsically underly the Canonical Art History. Starting from the reflections by the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the “Ecologies of Knowledge ”, my contribution shows how a new concept of subjectivity and identity practices proposed by artists not only oppose nationalist rhetoric, but also avoid resorting to the rigid approach of the equally sectorial rhetoric of otherness.
The Challenge of Subjectivity in Art History Between Globalism and Nationality: New Identity Practices
Mancini, Maria Giovanna
2020-01-01
Abstract
At the end of the 1980s, anthropologist Néstor García Canclini argued that inequality originates in the relationship between global and local, and affects the modes of industrial, economic, and legislative production. In recent decades, art historians have developed an anthropological approach, assuming that a focus on the person as individual subject and social component can be useful for deconstructing hegemonic discourses that intrinsically underly the Canonical Art History. Starting from the reflections by the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the “Ecologies of Knowledge ”, my contribution shows how a new concept of subjectivity and identity practices proposed by artists not only oppose nationalist rhetoric, but also avoid resorting to the rigid approach of the equally sectorial rhetoric of otherness.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
