What Is Contemporary Art? / Terry Smith

TABLE OF CONTENTS: --- List of Illustrations --- Preface and Acknowledgments --- Introduction Contemporary Art Inside Out --- Part I Museums: Modern / Contemporary --- 1 Remodernizing Manhattan --- 2 Sublime-on-Hudson: Dia: Beacon Now --- 3 Sensation = Saatchi --- 4 Contemporizing the Tate Modern --- Part II Spectacles: Architecture / Sculpture --- 5 The Experience Museum: Bilbao and Beyond --- 6 The Intensity Exhibit: Barneyworld at McGuggenheim --- Part III Markets: Global / Local --- 7 Going Global: Selling Contemporary Art --- 8 From the Desert to the Fair --- Part IV Countercurrents: South / North --- 9 The Postcolonial Turn --- 10 Our Otherness: The Beauty of the Animal --- Part V Contemporaneity: Times / Places --- 11 Taking Time . . . --- 12 Art, Truth, and Politics --- Part VI. An Art Historical Hypothesis --- 13 What Is Contemporary Art? --- Notes --- Index. --- Book review by Okwui Enwezor

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