E-flux Journal - What Is Contemporary Art?

 This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-century artistic movements? A single hegemonic "ism" has replaced clearly distinguishable movements and grand narratives. But what exactly does it mean to be working under the auspices of this singular ism?

• Format Paperback | 216 pages
• Dimensions 111 x 181 x 18mm | 198g
• Publication date 03 Sep 2010
• Publisher Sternberg Press
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 24 B&W ILLUS.
• ISBN10 1934105104
• ISBN13 9781934105108