Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art.

Dr. Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Loughborough, UK. Her research centres on the work of women artists and expanded theoretical and critical perspectives on aesthetics, history and gendered subjectivity. She has authored a number of books and journal articles, including Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics (2003) and We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism (1999).

List of Illustrations List of Plates Introduction. Contemporary Art: At Home in a Global World 1. Foundation - Dynamic Ground 2. Threshold - Infinite Generosity 3. Passage - Transitive Affects 4. Landing - Imaginative Engagement Afterword On Affirmative Criticality Selected Bibliography Index