New art from London / Chris Townsend.
"After a decade of art revolving around sensation and celebrity, New Art from London identifies the emergence of a more mature and motivated strain of artists. Although they are far from being a coherent group with a manifesto, their work suggests, along with irony, wit and intelligence, a new...
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New York :
Thames & Hudson,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. But is it art? : culture, identity & the global city
- Ch. 2. If not here, where? : if not now, when? : aesthetics, history & modernity
- Ch. 3. Things fall apart : video, the body & space
- Ch. 4. What lies beneath : real life & the veneer of cultural economics
- Ch. 5. Some mark of between : landscapes, borders & identities
- Ch. 6. Sign's mistaken for wonders : art & the critique of administered culture
- Ch. 7. The end of history : art & catastrophe
- Ch. 8. Conclusion : a new reality is better than a new movie.