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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANARCHISM Colin Ward CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS Mary Beard and Julia Annas John Henderson ANCIENT WARFARE CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard Harry Sidebottom THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore John Blair CONTEMPORARY ART ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia Julian Stallabrass ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn Continental Philosophy ARCHITECTURE Simon Critchley Andrew Ballantyne COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes THE CRUSADES ART HISTORY Dana Arnold Christopher Tyerman ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland CRYPTOGRAPHY THE HISTORY OF Fred Piper and Sean Murphy ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin DADA AND SURREALISM Atheism Julian Baggini David Hopkins Augustine Henry Chadwick Darwin Jonathan Howard BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THE BIBLE John Riches Timothy Lim THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea Democracy Bernard Crick BRITISH POLITICS DESCARTES Tom Sorell Anthony Wright DESIGN John Heskett Buddha Michael Carrithers DINOSAURS David Norman BUDDHISM Damien Keown DREAMING J. Allan Hobson BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown DRUGS Leslie Iversen CAPITALISM James Fulcher THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch CHOICE THEORY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY Michael Allingham BRITAIN Paul Langford THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Jung Anthony Stevens EMOTION Dylan Evans KAFKA Ritchie Robertson EMPIRE Stephen Howe KANT Roger Scruton ENGELS Terrell Carver KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Ethics Simon Blackburn THE KORAN Michael Cook The European Union LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews John Pinder LITERARY THEORY EVOLUTION Jonathan Culler Brian and Deborah Charlesworth LOCKE John Dunn FASCISM Kevin Passmore LOGIC Graham Priest FEMINISM Margaret Walters MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE MARQUIS DE SADE FOUCAULT Gary Gutting John Phillips THE FRENCH REVOLUTION MARX Peter Singer William Doyle MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers FREE WILL Thomas Pink MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Freud Anthony Storr MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Galileo Stillman Drake John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh MODERN ART David Cottington GLOBAL CATASTROPHES MODERN IRELAND Senia Pasˇeta Bill McGuire MOLECULES Philip Ball GLOBALIZATION MUSIC Nicholas Cook Manfred Steger Myth Robert A. Segal GLOBAL WARMING NATIONALISM Steven Grosby Mark Maslin NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner HABERMAS NINETEENTH-CENTURY James Gordon Finlayson BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and HEGEL Peter Singer H. C. G. Matthew HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood NORTHERN IRELAND HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson Marc Mulholland HINDUISM Kim Knott PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close HISTORY John H. Arnold paul E. P. Sanders HOBBES Richard Tuck Philosophy Edward Craig HUMAN EVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Bernard Wood Samir Okasha HUME A. J. Ayer PLATO Julia Annas IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Indian Philosophy POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton David Miller Intelligence Ian J. Deary POSTCOLONIALISM ISLAM Malise Ruthven Robert Young JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves POSTMODERNISM JUDAISM Norman Solomon Christopher Butler POSTSTRUCTURALISM SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Catherine Belsey ANTHROPOLOGY PREHISTORY Chris Gosden John Monaghan and Peter Just PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY SOCIALISM Michael Newman Catherine Osborne SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce Psychology Gillian Butler and Socrates C. C. W. Taylor Freda McManus THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR QUANTUM THEORY Helen Graham John Polkinghorne SPINOZA Roger Scruton RENAISSANCE ART STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Geraldine A. Johnson TERRORISM Charles Townshend ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway THEOLOGY David F. Ford ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler THE HISTORY OF TIME RUSSELL A. C. Grayling Leofranc Holford-Strevens RUSSIAN LITERATURE TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Catriona Kelly THE TUDORS John Guy THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TWENTIETH-CENTURY S. A. Smith BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan SCHIZOPHRENIA THE VIKINGS Julian D. Richards Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling SCHOPENHAUER WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman Christopher Janaway THE WORLD TRADE SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer ORGANIZATION SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Amrita Narlikar Available soon: AFRICAN HISTORY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS John Parker and Richard Rathbone Paul Wilkinson ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman JAZZ Brian Morton CHAOS Leonard Smith MANDELA Tom Lodge CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy NEWTON Robert Iliffe Derrida Simon Glendinning PHILOSOPHY OF LAW EXISTENTIALISM Raymond Wacks Thomas Flynn PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards THE FIRST WORLD WAR PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns Michael Howard RACISM Ali Rattansi FUNDAMENTALISM THE RAJ Denis Judd Malise Ruthven THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside ROMAN EMPIRE HUMAN MIGRATION Christopher Kelly Khalid Koser ROMANTICISM Duncan Wu For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Julian Stallabrass CONTEMPORARY ART A Very Short Introduction 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York AucklandCape Town Dar es SalaamHong Kong Karachi Kuala LumpurMadridMelbourneMexico CityNairobi New DelhiShanghaiTaipeiToronto With offices in ArgentinaAustriaBrazilChileCzech RepublicFranceGreece GuatemalaHungary ItalyJapanPoland PortugalSingapore South KoreaSwitzerland ThailandTurkeyUkraineVietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Julian Stallabrass 2004 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published in hardback as Art Incorporated 2004 First published as a Very Short Introduction 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0–19–280646–7 978–0–19–280646–8 1357910864 2 Typeset by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hampshire Contents Acknowledgements ix List of illustrations x 1 A zone of freedom? 1 2 New world order 19 3 Consuming culture 50 4 Uses and prices of art 70 5 The rules of art now 101 6 Contradictions 119 References 136 Index 145 To Peter and Audrey Acknowledgements While this book takes a position against much of the literature written on contemporary art, that writing has nonetheless formed it, and I would like to express my appreciation to all those who appear in the references section. I would urge readers to use this account as a staging post to go on to find more detailed analyses of subjects that can only be dealt with summarily here. I have benefited greatly from conversations with many artists, academics, critics, and curators, and particularly from colleagues and students at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Many thanks also to Sarah James and Hyla Robiscek, who helped my research. Thanks also to all those at Oxford University Press, and particularly to Katharine Reeve who nurtured this project. Parts of this book have been previously published in the following places, though all these passages have been substantially altered for their appearance here: ‘Shop until You Stop’, in Schirn Kunstalle Frankfurt/Tate Liverpool, Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, ed. Christoph Grunenberg and Max Hollein (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002). ‘Free Trade/Free Art’, in Neil Cummings/Marysia Lewandowska, Free Trade (Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery, 2003). ‘Literally No Place by Liam Gillick’, Bookworks website, June 2003: http://www.bookworks.org.uk/sharptalk/04/index.htm
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