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Contemporary Art Books
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Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,268 ratings — published 1998
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,092 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,314 ratings — published 2008
What Is Contemporary Art? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 103 ratings — published 2009
How to Write About Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 584 ratings — published 2014
After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,946 ratings — published 2000
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,283 ratings — published 1983
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Volume 35) (California Studies in the History of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,246 ratings — published 1995
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,855 ratings — published 2002
100 XIV (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2013
Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 306 ratings — published 2014
Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: From Slashed Canvas to Unmade Bed, Modern Art Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.31 — 891 ratings — published 2012
Themes in Contemporary Art (Art of the Twentieth Century)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.66 — 53 ratings — published 2004
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,177 ratings — published 1980
The Wretched of the Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.35 — 721 ratings — published 2012
Strangeland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,819 ratings — published 2005
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,535 ratings — published 2004
Where Art Belongs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 559 ratings — published 2011
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 203 ratings — published 2024
Ways of Curating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,527 ratings — published 2014
Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 822 ratings — published 2017
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published 2015
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.68 — 74 ratings — published 2019
Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA Primary Documents)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2018
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.13 — 403 ratings — published 2002
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.88 — 240 ratings — published 1994
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.44 — 439 ratings — published 2006
Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (Chinese Philosophy Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2011
33 Artists in 3 Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,318 ratings — published 2014
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 149 ratings — published
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,810 ratings — published 2014
Art Now: Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 272 ratings — published 2002
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 446,101 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,026 ratings — published 2005
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 635 ratings — published 1985
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.05 — 539 ratings — published 1996
Tenmyouya Hisashi: Masterpiece (Deluxe Softcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Aida Makoto - Monument For Nothing (Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 2013
Art Now Vol 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.88 — 196 ratings — published 2002
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,020 ratings — published 1980
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,066 ratings — published 1997
Unmonumental (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 50 ratings — published 2007
How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 58 ratings — published 2007
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,443 ratings — published 1997
Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.73 — 91 ratings — published 1989
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 228 ratings — published 2005
What is Contemporary Art? (Diary)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 66 ratings — published 2010
The Unknown Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,623 ratings — published 1831
Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.75 — 154 ratings — published 1994
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