Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

• A controversial and fascinating look at the contemporary global art scene - from Britain to China, South Africa to Cuba
• Asks the big questions that need asking about what underlies contemporary art - who really sets the agenda and who really benefits from the global boom in contemporary art?
• Thoughtful and incisive, this book will change the way you see contemporary art
• The author has been Paul Mellon Center Fellow at the Tate Gallery, assistant editor of the New Left Review, tutor in Contemporary Art and Theory at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing. He is currently Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Readership: General readers and students interested in art and contemporary culture; gallery-goers.

Julian Stallabrass, Reader in Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

"'by far the most strident and polemic entry I've yet come across in Oxford's excellent series of "very short introductions"'" - Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunda

1: A Zone of Freedom?
2: A New World Order
3: Consuming Culture
4: Uses and Prices of Art
5: The Rules of Art Now
6: Contradictions