Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including One and Five Ideas: On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism, also published by Duke University Press, and What Is Contemporary Art?
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Anticipation and Historicity 1
Part I. Thinking Contemporary Art
1. Contemporary Art, Contemporaneity, and Art to Come 27
2. In a Nutshell: Art within Contemporary Conditions 54
3. Contemporary Architecture: Spectacle, Crisis, Aftermath 64
4. Concurrence: Art, Design, Architecture 101
5. Background Story, Global Foreground: Chinese Contemporary Art 126
6. Country, Indigeneity, Sovereignty: Aboriginal Australian Art 156
7. Placemaking, Displacement, Worlds-within-Worlds 198
8. Picturing Planetarity: Arts of Multiverse 228
Part II. Art Historiography: Conjectures and Refutations
9. The State of Art History: Contemporary Art 245
10. Theorizing the Contemporary and the Postcontemporary 279
11. Writing Histories of Contemporary Art: The Situation Now 311
Conclusion: Concurrence in Contemporary World Picturing 353
Notes 365
Index 417
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