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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 — 1,257 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 — 6,028 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,242 ratings — published 2008
What Is Contemporary Art? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 102 ratings — published 2009
How to Write About Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 566 ratings — published 2014
After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,947 ratings — published 2000
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,279 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 — 1,245 ratings — published 1995
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,862 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 — 302 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 3.32 — 869 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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,592 ratings — published 1980
Strangeland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,623 ratings — published 2005
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,520 ratings — published 2004
Where Art Belongs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 547 ratings — published 2011
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,824 ratings — published 2024
Ways of Curating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,469 ratings — published 2014
Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 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 — 805 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 — 73 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 — 398 ratings — published 2002
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.89 — 231 ratings — published 1994
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.43 — 430 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
Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 148 ratings — published 2017
33 Artists in 3 Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,311 ratings — published 2014
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 150 ratings — published
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,694 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 — 271 ratings — published 2002
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 434,617 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,359 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 — 614 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 — 537 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 — 195 ratings — published 2002
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,630 ratings — published 1980
The Wretched of the Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.35 — 694 ratings — published 2012
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,055 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 — 2,438 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 — 225 ratings — published 2005
What is Contemporary Art? (Diary)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 66 ratings — published 2010
The Unknown Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,261 ratings — published 1831
“Zeitgenössische Kunst zu betrachten und zu verstehen ist eine andere Disziplin, und die Abhängigkeit vom Kunstmarkt ist hier weitaus entscheidender als bei der Alten Kunst.”
― Gebrauchsanweisung fürs Museum
― Gebrauchsanweisung fürs Museum
“По большей части современное искусство лишено политического подтекста, разве что иногда случаются странные акции, больше напоминающие попытки вскочить на подножку уходящего поезда. В целом, даже когда художники-авангардисты нашего поколения выступают с агрессивными и вызывающими работами, в их творениях чаще видна нахальная усмешка, а не злобный оскал. Все-таки авторы больше склонны развлекать, а не устраивать кампании. Тектонические сдвиги в обществе, произошедшие за последние двадцать пять лет, не попали в круг их внимания. Эпоха торжествующего капитализма, когда превыше всего ценятся слава и богатство, прокомментирована была в общем-то слабо, а уж влияние глобализации и цифровых средств массовой информации и подавно не нашло отражения. Что же до проблем охраны окружающей среды, коррупции на разных уровнях, терроризма, религиозного фундаментализма, упадка сельской жизни, угрожающего расслоения в обществе, когда богатые становятся все богаче, а бедные – все беднее, жадности и бессердечности банкиров… Ну, всего этого как будто и нет, если судить по экспозициям в музеях современного искусства.”
― What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
― What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
