Table of Contents
Introduction
Re-envisioning the Canon: Are Pluriversal Canons Possible?
Ruth E. Iskin
Part I: Artists
Introduction
Chapter 1
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: Casualties of a Backfiring Canon?
Tirza True Latimer
Chapter 2
Jean-Michel Basquiat and the American Art Canon
Jordana Moore Saggese
Chapter 3
Sheila Hicks and the Consecration of Fiber Art
Elissa Auther
Chapter 4
The Elephant in the Church: Ai Weiwei, the Media Circus and the Global Canon
Wenny Teo
Chapter 5
El Anatsui’s Abstractions: Transformations, Analogies and the New Global
Elizabeth Harney
Part II: Mediums/Media
Introduction
Chapter 6
The Apotheosis of Video Art
William Kaizen
Chapter 7
Performance Art: Part of the Canon?
Jennie Klein
Chapter 8
Street Art: Critique, Commodification, Canonization
Paula J. Birnbaum
Chapter 9
New Media Art and Canonization: A Round-Robin Conversation
Sarah Cook with Karin de Wild
Part III: Exhibitions, Museums, Markets
Introduction
Chapter 10
On the Canon of Exhibition History
Felix Vogel
Chapter 11
Canonizing Hitler’s "Degenerate Art" in Three American Exhibitions, 1939‒1942
Jennifer McComas
Chapter 12
Museum Relations
Martha Buskirk
Chapter 13
The Commodification of the Contemporary Artist and High-Profile Solo Exhibition:
The Case of Takashi Murakami
Ronit Milano
Chapter 14
Troubling Canons: Curating and Exhibiting Women’s and Feminist Art, A Roundtable Discussion
Helena Reckitt
Chapter 15
The Contemporary Art Canon and the Market, A Roundtable Discussion
Jonathan T. D. Neil