Duke University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0347-2 | Paper: 978-1-4780-0305-2 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-0194-2 Library of Congress Classification N6497.S64 2019
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Art to Come Terry Smith—who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art—traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing contemporaneity as both a historical concept and a condition of the globalized world allows us to grasp how contemporary art exists in a fluid space of increasing interdependencies, multiple contemporaneous modernities, and persistent inequalities. Throughout these essays, Smith offers systematic proposals for writing contemporary art's histories while assessing how curators, critics, philosophers, artists, and art historians are currently doing so. Among other topics, Smith examines the intersection of architecture with other visual arts, Chinese art since the Cultural Revolution, how philosophers are theorizing concepts associated with the contemporary, Australian Indigenous art, and the current state of art history. Art to Come will be essential reading for artists, art students, curators, gallery workers, historians, critics, and theorists.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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?
REVIEWS
"Smith, who sees linearity as an ‘old-fashioned’ way of thinking about time, kicks up the silt of art history to present us with a historiography of contemporaneity. . . . To that end, he takes us through ‘contemporary’ buzzwords and ways of thinking about issues like globalisation, the Anthropocene, decolonisation, indigenisation, revived fundamentalisms and ecoactivism, to ask how we might harmonise our differences in a way that ‘ensures our mutual survival’ on this planet."
-- Fi Churchman Art Review
"In bringing this collection of essays together, Smith gives readers the opportunity to chart his progress as he repeatedly surveys the contemporary terrain. These field reports from a highly engaged observer provide compelling reading for anyone concerned with art practices of the past three decades."
-- Martha Buskirk Critical Inquiry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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Duke University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0347-2 Paper: 978-1-4780-0305-2 Cloth: 978-1-4780-0194-2
In Art to Come Terry Smith—who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art—traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing contemporaneity as both a historical concept and a condition of the globalized world allows us to grasp how contemporary art exists in a fluid space of increasing interdependencies, multiple contemporaneous modernities, and persistent inequalities. Throughout these essays, Smith offers systematic proposals for writing contemporary art's histories while assessing how curators, critics, philosophers, artists, and art historians are currently doing so. Among other topics, Smith examines the intersection of architecture with other visual arts, Chinese art since the Cultural Revolution, how philosophers are theorizing concepts associated with the contemporary, Australian Indigenous art, and the current state of art history. Art to Come will be essential reading for artists, art students, curators, gallery workers, historians, critics, and theorists.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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?
REVIEWS
"Smith, who sees linearity as an ‘old-fashioned’ way of thinking about time, kicks up the silt of art history to present us with a historiography of contemporaneity. . . . To that end, he takes us through ‘contemporary’ buzzwords and ways of thinking about issues like globalisation, the Anthropocene, decolonisation, indigenisation, revived fundamentalisms and ecoactivism, to ask how we might harmonise our differences in a way that ‘ensures our mutual survival’ on this planet."
-- Fi Churchman Art Review
"In bringing this collection of essays together, Smith gives readers the opportunity to chart his progress as he repeatedly surveys the contemporary terrain. These field reports from a highly engaged observer provide compelling reading for anyone concerned with art practices of the past three decades."
-- Martha Buskirk Critical Inquiry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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