Art to come : histories of contemporary art /

In 'Art to Come,' Terry Smith, who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art, traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing contemporaneity as both a histor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Terry (Terry E.) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Art, Modern > 21st century > Political aspects. Art, Modern > 21st century > Philosophy. Art and globalization. Decolonization in art. Postcolonialism and the arts. Art and society. ART > History > General.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Anticipaion and historicity
Contemporary art, contemporaneity, and art to come
In a nutshell : art within contemporary conditions
Contemporary architecture : spectacle, crisis, aftermath
Concurrence : art, design, architecture
Background story, global foreground : Chinese contemporary art
Country, indigeneity, sovereignty : Aboriginal Australian art
Placemaking, displacement, worlds-within-worlds
Picturing planetarity : arts of the multiverse
The state of art history : contemporary art
Theorizing the contemporary and the postcontemporary
Writing histories of contemporary art : the situation now
Conclusion: Concurrence in contemporary world picturing.