Research Guides: Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia: Books Available at the ERC

Books about Art and Globalization

Lee, Pamela M. Forgetting the Art World. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2012.
Mathur, Saloni, ed. The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora. Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.
Zarobell, John. Art and the Global Economy. Oakland, University of California Press, 2017.

Globalization and Contemporary Art by Jonathan Harris
ISBN: 9781444396980
Publication Date: 2011-03-31
In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world. First major anthology of essays concerned with the impact of globalization on contemporary art Extensive bibliography and a full index designed to enable the reader to broaden knowledge of art and its relationship to globalization Unique analysis of the contemporary art market and its operation in a globalized economy

Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta by Charles Rick Green; Anthony Gardner
ISBN: 9781444336641
Publication Date: 2016-05-23
This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la Méditerranée in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955, the second Havana Biennial of 1986, New York's Whitney Biennial in 1993, and the 2002 Documenta11 in Kassel, to the Gwangju Biennale of 2014 Explores the evolving curatorial approaches to biennials, including analysis of the roles of sponsors, philanthropists and biennial directors and their re-shaping of the contemporary art scene Uses the history of biennials as a means of illustrating and inciting further discussions of globalization in contemporary art

Alinsky, Saul David. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York, Vintage Books, 1971.
Moyer, Twylene and Glenn Harper, eds.. The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency. Hamilton, NJ, ISC Press, 2011.
Thompson, Nato and Gregory Sholette, et al, eds.. The interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2004.

Bonansinga, Kate and Lucy Lippard. Curating at the Edge: Artisits Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2010 .[Link to E-book]
Gutierrez, Laura G. Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2010.
Sheren, Ila Nicole. Portable Borders - Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2015. [Link to E-book]

Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicutural America. New York, Pantheon Books, 1990.

Trigger, Bruce G., and Wilcomb E. Washburn, et al ,eds. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (Vol II: MesoAmerica, Part 1 and 2). Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1996-2000.
Weaver, Muriel Porter. The Aztecs, Maya and their predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica. San Diego, Academic Press, 1993.

Gomez-Barris, Macarena. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Durham, Duke University Press, 2017.

Shoiock Roff, Sandra, et al. From the Free Academy to CUNY: illustrating public higher education in New York City, 1847-1997. Fordham UP, 2000.

Irational.org
M. Cuevas has been a member since 1999.
Mejor Vida Corp.
Cuevas was a founder of this corporation since 1998. The project centers around a website that offers a range of public interventions in Mexico City, including the provision of special bar codes to reduce the cost of food items at supermarkets, personalized fake student ID cards, and free phone calls. The affect is simple and modest acts that intend to infiltrate and disrupt economic and social systems. Overall, Mejor Vida Corp. exposes inequality and hardship, as a critique of established systems that serve as a form of protest or revolt.

The Utopian Globalists by Jonathan Harris
ISBN: 9781405193016
Publication Date: 2013-02-25
An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social transformation Provides a strong historical narrative that adds structure and clarity Features a cogent and innovative critique of contemporary art and institutions Covers 100 years of art from Vladimir Tatlin's constructivist 'Monument to the Third International', to Picasso's late 1940s commitment to Communism, to the Unilever Series sponsored Large Artworks installed at London's Tate Modern since 2000. Includes the only substantial account in print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Montreal 'Bed-in' Offers an accessible description and interpretation of Debord's 'society of the spectacle' theory