Excellent read to bring artists up to date on the changeover from 'modernism' to 'contemporary' in artwork, museum architecture and exhibitions, the art market, and art theory. A fascinating introduction on the conditions and questions raised by contemporaneity and the current world picture leads on to a description of world renowned museums and how they have responded to or not to changes. The author describes contemporary art through the work of artists, art auctions, art fairs, biennales, collectors. Smith includes a discussion of aboriginal art, the third and fourth worlds of art, and a chapter on Art,Truth and Politics.
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