Forgetting the Art World

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It may be time to forget the art world--or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read, its borders blur. Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration, borders and multitudes, but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process. Rather than think about the ¿global art world¿ as a socioeconomic phenomenon, or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors, Lee considers ¿the work of art¿s world¿ as a medium through which globalization takes place. She argues that the work of art is itself both object and agent of globalization. To speak of ¿the work of art¿s world, ¿ Lee says, is to point to both the work of art¿s mattering and its materialization, to understand the activity performed by the object as utterly continuous with the world it at once inhabits and creates.