{"product_id":"art-to-come-9781478003052","title":"Art to Come","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Art to Come Terry Smith-who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art-traces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his concept of contemporaneity. Smith shows that embracing contemporaneity as both a historical concept and a condition of the globalized world allows us to grasp how contemporary art exists in a fluid space of increasing interdependencies, multiple contemporaneous modernities, and persistent inequalities. Throughout these essays, Smith offers systematic proposals for writing contemporary art's histories while assessing how curators, critics, philosophers, artists, and art historians are currently doing so. Among other topics, Smith examines the intersection of architecture with other visual arts, Chinese art since the Cultural Revolution, how philosophers are theorizing concepts associated with the contemporary, Australian Indigenous art, and the current state of art history. Art to Come will be essential reading for artists, art students, curators, gallery workers, historians, critics, and theorists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith, who sees linearity as an ‘old-fashioned’ way of thinking about time, kicks up the silt of art history to present us with a historiography of contemporaneity. . . . To that end, he takes us through ‘contemporary’ buzzwords and ways of thinking about issues like globalisation, the Anthropocene, decolonisation, indigenisation, revived fundamentalisms and ecoactivism, to ask how we might harmonise our differences in a way that ‘ensures our mutual survival’ on this planet.\" -- Fi Churchman * Art Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"In bringing this collection of essays together, Smith gives readers the opportunity to chart his progress as he repeatedly surveys the contemporary terrain. These field reports from a highly engaged observer provide compelling reading for anyone concerned with art practices of the past three decades.\" -- Martha Buskirk * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"At once retrospective and anticipatory, Smith’s description of his intent with \u003ci\u003eArt to Come\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that the book is as much for himself and ‘those to come’ as it is for art historians and other observers of contemporary art working today (24). For Smith, contemporary art history is historiography. By writing contemporary art history as personal historiography, Smith models for his readers—present and future—an ethics as much as a methodology for the study of the visual culture today.\" -- Elizabeth Mansfield * Journal of Art Historiography *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Anticipation and Historicity  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Thinking Contemporary Art\u003cbr\u003e 1. Contemporary Art, Contemporaneity, and Art to Come  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. In a Nutshell: Art within Contemporary Conditions  54\u003cbr\u003e 3. Contemporary Architecture: Spectacle, Crisis, Aftermath  64\u003cbr\u003e 4. Concurrence: Art, Design, Architecture  101\u003cbr\u003e 5. Background Story, Global Foreground: Chinese Contemporary Art  126\u003cbr\u003e 6. Country, Indigeneity, Sovereignty: Aboriginal Australian Art  156\u003cbr\u003e 7. Placemaking, Displacement, Worlds-within-Worlds  198\u003cbr\u003e 8. Picturing Planetarity: Arts of Multiverse  228\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Art Historiography: Conjectures and Refutations\u003cbr\u003e 9. The State of Art History: Contemporary Art  245\u003cbr\u003e 10. Theorizing the Contemporary and the Postcontemporary  279\u003cbr\u003e 11. Writing Histories of Contemporary Art: The Situation Now  311\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Concurrence in Contemporary World Picturing  353\u003cbr\u003e Notes  365\u003cbr\u003e Index  417\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408973275479,"sku":"9781478003052","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478003052.jpg?v=1730504921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-to-come-9781478003052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}