Contemporary Art History short course: Bibliography

Foster, Krauss, et al. Art Since 1900. London: Thames and Hudson (2015).

Introduction – Globalisation and its discontents:

Smith, Terry. What is Contemporary Art? Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (709.05
SMI)
Smith, Terry. Contemporary Art. World Currents. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011. (709.05 SMI)
Stallabrass, Julian. Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Globalisation.
Vanderlinden, Barbara and Elena Filipovic. The Manifesta Decade: debates on contemporary art exhibitions
and biennials in post-wall Europe. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2005.
Tawadros, Gilane. Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation. London:
INIVA, 2004.
Farquharson, Alex and TJ Demos. Uneven Geographies (Exhibition catalogue). Nottingham: Nottingham
Contemporary, 2010. Available only online at:
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/sites/default/files/UG_cat_lowres.pdf
Belting, Hans, Andrea Buddensieg and Peter Weibel. The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art
Worlds. Karlsruhe and Cambridge (MA): ZKM and MIT Press, 2013.

Art and the Spectacle of the Market

Graw, Isabelle. High Price. Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture. Berlin and New York: Sternberg
Press, 2009. (706.9 GRA)
Mulholland, Neil. The Cultural Devolution. Art in Britain in the Late Twentieth Century. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2003.
Artforum April 2008 “The Market” special issue.
Wu, Chin Tao. Privatising Culture. London and New York: Verso, 2003.
Stallabrass, Julian. Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004.

Exhibitions and their histories + The Museum

Steeds, Lucy (ed.). EXHIBITION. London and Cambridge (MA): Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2014.
Altshuler, Bruce (ed.). Biennials and Beyond – Exhibitions that Made Art History 1962-2002. London and
New York: Phaidon Press, 2013.
Green, Charles and Anthony Gardner. Biennials, Triennials, and documenta: The Exhibitions that Created
Contemporary Art. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Barker, Emma (ed.). Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Haven: Yale University Press and The Open
University, 1999.

The postcolonial and non-white Other

Araeen, Rasheed. “The Success and the Failure of Black Art.” Third Text vol.18, 2 (2004): 135-152.
Araeen, Rasheed (ed.). The Other Story. Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain. London: Hayward Gallery,
1989.
Chambers, Eddie. Black Artists in British Art. A History since the 1950s. London and New York: IB Tauris,
2014.

Painting/Traditional Media
Graw, Isabelle. “Martin Kippenberger.” Artforum Summer 2013.
Graw, Siabelle and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. Painting beyond Itself. The Medium in the Post-medium
Condition. Berlin and New York: Sternberg Press2016.
Graw, Isabelle, Daniel Birnbaum and Nikolaus Hirsch, editors. Thinking through Painting. Reflexivity and
Agency beyond the Canvas. Berlin and New York: Sternberg Press, 2012. (759.07 GRA)
Joselit, David. “Painting Beside Itself.” October 130 (2009), 125?.
Osborne, Peter. “Modernism, Abstraction, and the Return to Painting.” In Thinking Art. Beyond Traditional
Aesthetics, edited by Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1991,
59-79.