Since the 15th century Italian Renaissance and onward, the notion of perspectival painting by the likes of Alberti and daVinci has held sway on the evolving western art scene. Then, just as today, name-branded artists received patronage and salaries from the wealthiest art collectors of their times. With the perfection of this painterly technique and the invention of photography in the late 18th century, it could be said that the numerous hermeneutically driven trajectories of the relentless modernist pursuit of the new, latest thing, came into play. This drive for the latest fashion gave rise to the speculative art market that dominates today. This study will lay out some of the developmental steps that lead to the current state of the art market, including the consideration of what the market will look like as western hegemony fractionalizes and the world evolves into multipolar sovereign trajectories. This presentation will lead into a concluding discussion where Asian Art and its impact on the decentralisation of the global art scene will be examined.

Speaker Biography

James S. Moy
University of South Florida, United States

James S. Moy is Professor of Theatre and former Dean of the College of the Arts at the University of South Florida, United States. After training as a studio artist, Professor Moy went on to graduate study at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), United States, where he became interested in happenings and performance art. He completed advanced studies in stage direction during his time at CalArts and eventually a PhD in Theatre History and Playwriting with a dual focus on playwriting and performance history at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.

Professor Moy has held teaching posts at various American institutions, including The University of Texas (Austin), The University of Oregon, Northwestern University, and The University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he served as Chair of the Department of Theater and Drama. Professor Moy left The University of Wisconsin and served several decanal posts in various institutions worldwide, including the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, United States; the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and the School of Fine Art at Ontario College of Art & Design University, Canada. Professor Moy was a Provost and Vice President at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, before returning to a professorship and decanal post at the University of South Florida.

Author of Marginal Sights - Staging the Chinese and editor of several volumes of Theatre Journal, Professor Moy has published over forty scholarly articles and reviews in a variety of refereed journals. A specialist in racial representation, he has lectured internationally from Nanjing and Kuala Lumpur to Ulan Ude, Stockholm, Venice, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Aberystwyth, Tampere, and London.

About the Presenter(s)
-James S. Moy is Professor of Theatre and former Dean of the College of the Arts at the University of South Florida, United States.

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