What is contemporary art? /
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, the author brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Contemporary art inside out
- Museums: modern/contemporary
- Remodernizing Manhattan
- Sublime-on-Hudson: Dia : Beacon now
- SensationSaatchi
- Contemporizing the Tate Modern
- Spectacles: architecture/sculpture
- The experience museum: Bilbao and beyond
- The intensity exhibit: Barneyworld at McGuggenheim
- Markets: global/local
- Going global: selling contemporary art
- From the desert to the fair
- Countercurrents: south/north
- The postcolonial turn
- Our otherness: the beauty of the animal
- Contemporaneity: times/places
- Taking time
- Art, truth, and politics
- An art historical hypothesis
- What is contemporary art?