What Is Contemporary Art?
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contemporary Art Inside Out
Part I Museums: Modern / Contemporary
1 Remodernizing Manhattan
2 Sublime-on-Hudson: Dia: Beacon Now
3 Sensation = Saatchi
4 Contemporizing the Tate Modern
Part II Spectacles: Architecture / Sculpture
5 The Experience Museum: Bilbao and Beyond
6 The Intensity Exhibit: Barneyworld at McGuggenheim
Part III Markets: Global / Local
7 Going Global: Selling Contemporary Art
8 From the Desert to the Fair
Part IV Countercurrents: South / North
9 The Postcolonial Turn
10 Our Otherness: The Beauty of the Animal
Part V Contemporaneity: Times / Places
11 Taking Time . . .
12 Art, Truth, and Politics
Part VI. An Art Historical Hypothesis
13 What Is Contemporary Art?
Notes
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won
College Art Association: Frank Jewett Mather Prize
Won
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