DESCRIPTION
Third Text is a bimonthly international scholarly journal on art in global context. Since its inception in 1987, it set out to challenge the West's position as the ultimate arbiter within arts and culture. Under the editorship of London-based artist and cultural theorist Rasheed Araeen, Third Text challenges the boundaries of the visual arts and the confines of the Western academy, featuring leading critics alongside new voices and advanced scholarship interspersed with radical interdisciplinary work that goes beyond the confines of eurocentricity. Published in London, but designed to raise the critical temperature and the political stakes for art and cultural practice in the age of globalization, its regional focuses give voice to writers and artists outside the Western academic canon. In this respect the journal has played an important role not only in liberating already colonized discourses but also in prompting the coloniser to "decolonise his/her mind", as the editors put it.
PEOPLE
Rasheed Araeen, Zygmunt Bauman, Rustom Bharucha, Zeynep Çelik, James Clifford, Annie Coombes, Sean Cubitt, Jimmie Durham, Denis Ekpo, Clifford Geertz, Stuart Hall, Ihab Hassan, Kobena Mercer, Olu Oguibe, Benita Parry, Colin Richards, George Ritzer, Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, Gayatri Spivak, Julian Stallabrass, Slavoj Zizek.
FAMILY TREE
- Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art.
- Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture (2007)
- Sarai Reader
RE/SOURCES
- Third Text on Wikipedia
- Third Text publisher's website.
- Third Text Online Index.
- Sample content.
- In Google Books.
- Araeen, Rasheed. Editorial, "Why Third Text: founding statement of the journal, Third Text, Autumn 1987, 3-5
- Araeen, Rasheed. "From Innovation to Deconstruction: My Own Story", Generazione delle Immagini.
- Moore-Gilbert, Bart. Review: "The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory", in Wassafari, Issue 41, Spring 2004.
- "Book review of The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory", Art monthly 6/254.
COMMENT: 3 July 2008 by liepollo: Third World? First World? and then...insightful info, thank you.
