Contents | |
Introduction | |
Themes of Contemporary Art: What, Why, and How Format of the Book | |
The Art World Expands | |
Overview of History and Art History: 1980-2008 | |
Old Media Thrive, New Media Make Waves | |
The Art World Goes Global Theory Waxes and Wanes | |
Art Meets Contemporary Culture Post Studio Art Practice | |
Time | |
Time and Art History Representing time | |
Embodying time Changing Views of Time Changing Views of the Past | |
Exhibits about Time Exploring the Structure of Time Fracturing time | |
Real time Changing rhythm Exploring endlessness | |
Revisiting the Past Recovering history | |
Reshuffling the past Reframing the present Commemorating the Past | |
Profile #1: Brian Tolle | |
Profile #2: Cornelia Parker | |
Place | |
Places Have Meanings Places | |
Have Value Exhibits about Place History's | |
Influence (Most) places exist in space | |
The work of art exists in a place Looking at Places | |
Looking Out For Places Constructing (and Deconstructing) | |
Artificial Places Placeless Spaces What's Public? | |
What's Private? | |
In-Between Places | |
Profile #1: Janet Cardiff | |
Profile #2: Unilever Series at Tate Modern | |
Identity | |
Identity in Art History Identity is Communal or Relational Social and cultural identities | |
Identity politics | |
Identity is Constructed Essentialism | |
Difference Identity is Not Fixed | |
Sexual Identity is Diverse Hybridity Reinventing Identities | |
Profile #1: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith | |
Profile #2: Shirin Neshat | |
The Body | |
Past Figurative Art A New Spin on the Body | |
The body is a battleground | |
The body is a sign People are bodies | |
The Body Beautiful Different bodies | |
Body parts Mortal Bodies Sexual Bodies | |
The gaze Sexual pleasure and desire Sex and violence Post-Human Bodies | |
Profile #1: Renee Cox | |
Profile #2: Zhang Huan | |
Language | |
Words with Art: A History Art with Words | |
A History Recent Theories of Language Reasons for Using Language Exhibitions and Publications | |
Concerning Language in Art Language Makes Meaning Language Takes | |
Form Transparency and translucency Spatiality and physicality | |
Books made by artists Art made with books | |
Wielding the Power of Language Confronting the Challenge of Translation | |
Using Text in the Information Age | |
Profile #1: Ken Aptekar | |
Profile #2: Nina Katchadourian | |
Science | |
What is Science? | |
The Scientific Impulse | |
The Scientific Method Artists as Amateur Scientists | |
Artists Adopt Scientific Methods and Materials | |
Creole Technologies BioArt Science and Art: Intertwined Through History | |
The Ideology of Science Is Science Running Amok? | |
Activist Art Responds Recent Exhibits about science and art | |
The Visual Culture of Science Scientific imaging and art Deconstructing the visual culture of science Scientific displays | |
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