After all, it is a lot easier to measure art against the standards that have been established in Western art historiography than to consider such works against the backdrop of the specific cultural context in which they were created, an approach that might led to entirely different views.
What if – as Ashley Rawlings (ArtAsiaPacific) facetiously suggests – a reverse comparison were drawn and Marcel Duchamp was declared the Ai Weiwei of France?
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global-contemporary.deEs ist schließlich auch viel leichter, Kunst lediglich an jenen Standards zu messen, die sich in der westlichen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung durchgesetzt haben, als sie im Licht der spezifischen kulturellen Bedingungen zu betrachten, unter denen sie entstanden ist, was womöglich ganz andere Sichtweisen ermöglichen würde.
Was wäre, wenn – wie Ashley Rawlings (ArtAsiaPacific) spöttisch vorschlägt – ein umgekehrter Vergleich gezogen werden würde und Marcel Duchamp in Wirklichkeit der Ai Weiwei Frankreichs wäre?
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