The Future of Modernist Risk

Chris Kraus at the Limits of Global Art

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ID5854935
AuthorsAlys Moody (0000-0002-7584-4510)
Year2019
Volume34
Issue101
Pages343-361
Publication date2019-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164649.2019.1679017
OpenAlexW2981551981
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

This article examines Chris Kraus’s work, especially her 2016 short story ‘Face’ and her 2006 novel Torpor, to argue that women’s engagement with modernism returns in global art as a risk, bound up with the material inequalities produced by globalisation. It shows how, in Kraus’s work, the legacies of modernism, the production of ‘backwardness’, and the exclusion of reproductive labour together generate an uneven temporality for the global, whereby futurity becomes anachronistic. It concludes by suggesting that ‘Face’ provides the outlines of an alternate global art, premised in the embrace of risky exchanges between women

Aesthetics · Anachronism · Art · Backwardness · Economics · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Globalization · Inequality · Modernism (music · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Work (physics · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Engineering · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature · Law · Philosophy

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