What Is Contemporary Art?

Name: What Is Contemporary Art?
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ISBN: 9780226764313

ISBN-10: 0226764311

ISBN-13: 9780226764313

Edition: 2009

Authors: Terry Smith

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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, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question:What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Terry Smith is a Distinguished Research Professor at DePauw College of Law.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Contemporary Art Inside Out



Museums: Modern/Contemporary



Remodernizing Manhattan



Sublime-on-Hudson: Dia:Beacon Now



Sensation = Saatchi



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?


Notes


Index