What is contemporary art? / Terry Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Terry
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description329 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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?
Local noteLittle-356769--3051310589710
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-305) and index.
LCCN 2009013809
ISBN9780226764306 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226764303 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226764313 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226764311 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40017162004

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks N6497 .S65 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold