Description: Collection of essays by art historians and cultural theorists on what it means for art to be contemporary in the wake of postmodernism.
Review Quotes: "Anyone wishing to assess the state of contemporary art and its relation to institutions, politics, social movements, and indeed, the entire project of imagining and naming the world at the present moment will find this brilliant book essential and disturbing reading. It offers no grand synthesis but provides a shattered mosaic of the crucial elements that will have to be assembled by any future historian looking back on the early twenty-first century."--W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images