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Contemporary Art Books
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Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,276 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 — 6,129 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,635 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 4.15 — 589 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 — 1,286 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 — 3,854 ratings — published 2002
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 221 ratings — published 2024
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 — 894 ratings — published 2012
Themes in Contemporary Art (Art of the Twentieth Century)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.67 — 54 ratings — published 2004
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,752 ratings — published 1980
The Wretched of the Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.35 — 726 ratings — published 2012
Strangeland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,895 ratings — published 2005
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,544 ratings — published 2004
Where Art Belongs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 566 ratings — published 2011
A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (Blackwell Companions to Art History)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Ways of Curating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,547 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 4.11 — 835 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 — 75 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 4.12 — 406 ratings — published 2002
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.89 — 244 ratings — published 1994
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.45 — 443 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 — 1,320 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 — 3,842 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 — 450,581 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,577 ratings — published 2005
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 640 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 4.04 — 540 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 — 37,155 ratings — published 1980
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,068 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 — 2,445 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 — 6,728 ratings — published 1831
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In order to master the camera, I give myself special assignments. Giving yourself an assignment helps you to learn about photography and your equipment. By knowing what you want to achieve, you can plan things out. This way you can slow things down. Shoot and confirm. Take notes. Concentrate on getting the shot just right! You will learn to master Aperture Priority, shutter speed, ISO, manual settings, and more. Digital Camera, 2018”
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