Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization Fiction and career chronicle

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Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits

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Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization Fiction and career chronicleIn this account of what globalisation means for contemporary art, David Joselit argues that the creative use of tradition by artists from around the world serves as a means of combatting modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. Joselit analyses not only how heritage becomes contemporary through the practice of individual artists but also how a cultural infrastructure of museums, biennials and art fairs worldwide has emerged as a means of generating