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E-book
A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945ISBN: 978-1-4051-5235-8
E-book
648 pages
February 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945.
- Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.
- Contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.
- Offers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.



