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'''Grant Kester''' is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego, and the founding editor of ''[http://field-journal.com/ FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism]''. Kester is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice. He was the editor of ''Afterimage'' from 1990 to 1995. [https://visarts.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/grant-kester.html (2023)]

==Publications==

===Books===

* ''[[Media:Kester_Grant_A_Survivors_Guide_to_Baltimores_Renaissance 1992.pdf|A Survivor's Guide to Baltimore's Renaissance]]'', photo. Chris Hartlove, 1992, 63 pp.

* editor, ''Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage'', Duke University Press, 1998, 328 pp, [https://archive.org/details/artactivismoppos0000unse/ IA]. [https://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/toc/237229609_toc.pdf TOC]. [https://www.academia.edu/5339301/ Introduction]. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/art-activism-and-oppositionality Publisher]. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11smnp2]

* ''Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art'', University of California Press, 2004; new ed., upd., 2013, 264 pp. [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275942/conversation-pieces Publisher]. [http://cam.usf.edu/CAM/exhibitions/2008_8_Torolab/Readings/Conversation_PiecesGKester.pdf] 

* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/32cf54f4-38c2-49ce-8b12-256442fbc20f The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context]'', Duke University Press, 2011. 

* editor, with Bill Kelley Jr., ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/a74b4682-51b4-4101-a6fe-9fc662fe5195 Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010]'', Duke University Press, 2017. [https://www.academia.edu/34636128 Introduction].

* ''The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde'', Duke University Press, 2023, 280 pp. [https://www.academia.edu/98460799/ Introduction]. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-sovereign-self Publisher].

* ''Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art'', Duke University Press, 2024, 296 pp. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/beyond-the-sovereign-self Publisher].

===Articles, book chapters===

* [[Media:Kester Grant H 1994 Access Denied Information Policy and the Limits of Liberalism.pdf|"Access Denied: Information Policy and the Limits of Liberalism"]], in ''Ethics, Information and Technology. Readings'', eds. Richard N. Stichler and Robert Hauptman, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Comp., 1994, pp 207-230. [https://www.academia.edu/5339300/] [https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1994.21.6.5]

* [[Media:Kester_Grant H 2004_Dialogical_Aesthetics.pdf|"Dialogical Aesthetics"]], ch. 3 in Kester, ''Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art'', University of California Press, 2004, pp 82-123, n211-217. Draws on Habermas and discusses Fiumara, Bakhtin, Levinas and Irigaray. 

* [https://www.academia.edu/8631722/ "Autonomy, Antagonism and the Aesthetic"], ch. 1 in Kester, ''The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context'', Duke University Press, 2011. 

* [https://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53106452334fe071e0b90645 ARG]

* [https://ucsd.academia.edu/GrantKester more]

==Links==

* [https://visarts.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/grant-kester.html Profile on UC San Diego]
* [https://ucsd.academia.edu/GrantKester Academia.edu]

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