'What do we mean when we say that something is contemporary? And what should the designator "contemporary art" refer to? An immediate response would be that contemporary art is an art of the present, that it somehow addresses and expresses the present. But what is this present? What constitutes the present present or the contemporary contemporary? This book in the Contemporary Condition series introduces some of the key issues concerning contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present. It thus acts as an extended preface to the series as a whole calling for a rethinking of the deep structures of temporalization that render our present the way it is.' — from the back cover
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Onsite
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Location code
REF.COG
Language
English
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Publication/Creation date
2016
No of pages
44
ISBN / ISSN
9783956792816
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph
The Contemporary Condition: Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity & Contemporary Art
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