Contemporary Art: a Very Short Introduction (2nd edition) By: Julian Stallabrass [Audiobook]

Author: Julian Stallabrass
Narrated by: Corrie James

Contemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization, there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art continues to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Julian Stallabrass gives a clear view on the diverse and rapidly moving scene of contemporary art. Exploring art’s striking globalization from the 1990s onward, he analyzes how new regions and nations, such as China, have leapt into astonishing prominence, over-turning the old Euro-American dominance on aesthetics. Showing how contemporary art has drawn closer to fashion and the luxury goods market as artists have become accomplished marketers of their work, Stallabrass discusses the reinvention of artists as brands. This new edition also considers how once powerful art criticism has mutated into a critical and performative writing at which many artists excel.

27M	01. A zone of freedom.mp3
15M	02. New world order.mp3
20M	03. Russia and Scandinavia.mp3
20M	04. Consuming culture.mp3
18M	05. Uses and prices of art.mp3
14M	06. Uses of art.mp3
19M	07. The end of the end of History.mp3
19M	08. Fracture.mp3
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