Contemporary British Art : An Introduction (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Illustrations Figures Plates Introduction Cool Britannia, Contemporary Art and the Altermodern Chapter One: Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Market and its Institutions Introduction The Contemporary Art Market Contemporary Art, Celebrity & Private Collecting Perspectives on Contemporary Art Patronage The Arts Council’s Per Cent for Art Scheme Contexts for Public Art & Other Commissioning Organisations British Art Awards and Prizes The Creative Economy and Cultural Regeneration Contemporary Art Fairs and Biennales Chapter Two: Post-Conceptual British Painting Introduction Painting: Histories, Ideas and Contexts British Painting: Cultural Politics, Dissent and other Narratives Place, Entropy and the Imaginary in Contemporary Painting Remodernism, Stuckism and Film Noir Nostalgia Gestural and Geometric British Painting: Modernisms Revisited Chapter Three: Installation Art and Sculpture as Institutional Paradigms Introduction Installations and Installation Art Site-specific and Non Site-Specific Installations Installation, Objecthood and Active Spectatorship Phenomenology and Installation Art Installation Art, Praxis and Relational Aesthetics Installation Practice as a Dream-Like Encounter Paradigms of Installation Art as Immersive Experience and Subjective Disintegration Installations, Bodily Response and Experience Installation, Politics and Activated Spectatorship ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ - Traditions and Revisions Sculpture as Commodity and Appropriation Sculpture, Ambivalence and the Abject Chapter Four: New Media in Transition: Photography, Video & the Performative Introduction Photography: Contexts & Histories Narratives and Countercultures: Video and Performance Art Performance, Abjection and Other Narratives Documentary Genres: Docu-fiction and Social Reportage Technical Interventions, De-familiarisation and Spectacle Portraiture, Still Life and New Media Art: Objectification and Reversals Post-Conceptual British Art: New Directions Home Bibliography Index