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Art, Politics, and Modernism

Art, Politics, and Modernism is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of contemporary art, aesthetics theory, and cultural politics. It delves into topics such as relational aesthetics, activist art, globalization's impact on art, and the role of art in social engagement. The papers also discuss postmodernism, participatory art, and the evolving landscape of art theory in the context of contemporary society.

  • Contemporary Art
  • Aesthetics
  • Relational Aesthetics
  • Art Theory
  • Globalization
  • Activist Art
  • Cultural Politics
  • Participatory Art
  • Postmodernism
  • Social Engagement
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Art, Politics, and Modernism

Which countries lead Art, Politics, and Modernism research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (599 and 278 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 599 works
  2. 2 Brazil 278 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 269 works
  4. 4 Spain 113 works
  5. 5 Germany 109 works
  6. 6 France 104 works
  7. 7 Italy 91 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 79 works
  9. 9 China 78 works
  10. 10 Poland 76 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 33.3%Brazil: 15.5%United Kingdom: 15.0%Spain: 6.3%6 others listed: 29.9%33%largest
United States599 · 33.3%Brazil278 · 15.5%United Kingdom269 · 15.0%Spain113 · 6.3%6 others listed537 · 29.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Art, Politics, and Modernism research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Art, Politics, and Modernism research, followed by Film Independent and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 29 works
  2. 2 Film IndependentUnited States 21 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 18 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  5. 5 University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 13 works
  7. 7 UK Research and InnovationUnited Kingdom 12 works
  8. 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 12 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 12 works
  10. 10 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Art, Politics, and Modernism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Art, Politics, and Modernism include George Davey Smith, Victoria Clarke and Pierre Bourdıeu.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  3. 3 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  4. 4 Michel Foucault France 208k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Art, Politics, and Modernism?

The most cited paper in Art, Politics, and Modernism is "Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect" (Nigel J. Thrift, 2007), with 2,127 citations. Next come "Intensities of feeling: towards a spatial politics of affect" (1,917) and "The Ideology of the Aesthetic" (1,205).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect Nigel J. Thrift 13 Jul 2007 2,127
2 Intensities of feeling: towards a spatial politics of affect Nigel J. Thrift · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography Mar 2004 1,917
3 The Ideology of the Aesthetic Terry Eagleton · Poetics Today Open access 1988 1,205
4 Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics Claire Bishop · October Oct 2004 990
5 In the nature of cities urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism Nik Heynen, Maria Kaïka, Erik A. Swyngedouw 2006 818
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Where is Art, Politics, and Modernism research done?

The largest centres of Art, Politics, and Modernism research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), New York (United States) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 77 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 66 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 57 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 46 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 37 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 34 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 32 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 28 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 27 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Art, Politics, and Modernism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Arts London, University of Cambridge and The University of Sydney score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 62.88.5%162.5×14 +19.1%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 56.612.2%3.6×10 +71.7%
3The University of SydneyAustralia 56.48.7%4.2×12 +59.9%
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 55.111.9%6.3×29 -42.6%
5New York UniversityUnited States 54.318.9%4.1×11 -8.5%
6Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 44.613.1%60.5×8 +750.0%
7University of BolognaItaly 40.312.4%4.8×9 -18.6%
8Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 36.97.9%8.0×13 +32.7%
9Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 35.58.2%10.1×18 -34.3%
10Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 33.912.5%4.4×9 +19.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Art, Politics, and Modernism, country by country

Is Art, Politics, and Modernism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Art, Politics, and Modernism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Art, Politics, and Modernism over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Art, Politics, and Modernism9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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