Top 10 Best "Contemporary Art" Books

Contemporary Art

Terry Smith

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Themes of Contemporary Art

Jean Robertson
Craig McDaniel

Contemporary Art

Themes of Contemporary Art

A compact and accessible introduction to recent contemporary art history, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 , Second Edition, focuses on seven important themes that have recurred in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, place, language, science, and spirituality. The opening chapter provides a concise overview of the period, analyzing how five key changes (the rise of new media, a growing awareness of diversity, globalization, the influence of theory, and interactions with everyday visual culture) have resulted in an art world with dramatically expanded boundaries. The remaining seven chapters each feature an introduction to one thematic topic; a brief look at historical influences; a detailed analysis of how contemporary artists have responded to and embodied aspects of the theme in specific works; and two profiles of artists who have extensively explored aspects of the theme in their work. The book's thematic organization encourages students, gallery goers, and other readers to think actively and critically about the ideas expressed in the artwork...

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Seven Days in the Art World

Sarah Thornton

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The Upset

R. Klanten
H. Hellige
S. Ehmann

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Contemporary Art

Julian Stallabrass

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50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know

Christine Weidemann
Brad Finger

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100 Contemporary Artists (Taschen 25 Anniversary)

Hans Werner Holzwarth

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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art

Kristine Stiles
Peter Selz

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David Hopkins

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Why Is That Art?

Terry Barrett

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?

Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.

This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate...

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Don Thompson

Contemporary Art

Collecting Contemporary Art (25)

Adam Lindemann

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