Frieze : a to Z of Contemporary Art / [Selected by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover with frieze Co-editors Dan Fox, Jorg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie ; editors, Matthew McLean and Rebecca Morrill.].

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English
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New York : Phaidon, 2016.
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351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    This book charts the dynamic, changing landscape of contemporary art and culture of the past quarter-century. Drawing on frieze magazine's exceptional back catalogue of articles, this book brings together a curated collection of over fifty engaging highlights.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword /Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover
    • Introductions /Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser and Dan Fox
    • Avant-garde : Brian O'Doherty avoidsbeing categorized
    • Books: Sam Thorne on artists in fiction
    • Cavemen: Tom Morton on the prehistoric imagination
    • Critics: Carl Freedman interviews David Sylvester
    • Curators: Adriano Pedrosa on an imaginary studio visit
    • Death: Stuart Morgan talks to Damien Hirst
    • Design: Emily King on the graphic vision of Tony Arefin
    • Dissent: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on performance and protest in the 'Arab Spring'
    • Economics: Colin Siyuan Chinnery on Xu Zhen's company
    • Emotions: Jörg Heiser on 'Romantic Conceptualism'
    • Essays: Brian Dillon on 'a form that wants to wander'
    • Ethics: Negar Azimi on art and activism
    • Fame: Glenn O'Brien remembers Andy Warhol's voice
    • Fashion: Collier Schorr returns the frosty gaze
    • Film: Steve McQueen on his cinematic influences
    • Fortune: Stuart Morgan on Paul Thek
    • Furniture: Daniel Birnbaum on IKEA and metaphysics
    • Gambling: Dave Hickey plays double or quits
    • Gentrification: Steven Stern on the 'clean-up' of Times Square
    • History: Christian Haye on Kara Walker
    • Ideology: Barbara Casavecchia on Fabio Mauri
    • Influences: Liliane Lijn on who and whathas shaped her
    • Interfaces: Alice Rawsthorn on screens and devices
    • Jargon: Dan Fox and Jennifer Higgie update Keywords
    • Judgement: Jan Verwoert on 'hot' and 'cool' criticism
    • Kitsch: Chloe Hooper on Australia's 'Big Things'
    • Loss: Adrian Searle remembers Juan Muñoz
    • Love: Lane Relyea on Felix Gonzalez-Torres
    • Measures: Charles Ray on the world's ur-kilograms
    • Mentors: Edward Allington pays tribute to Stuart Morgan
    • Minimalism: David Batchelor on the myths of Minimal Art
    • Museums: Peter Schjeldhal on the Guggenheim Bilbao
    • Nature: James Roberts says it with flowers
    • Nostalgia: Jon Savage on the appeal of the 1960s
    • Oblivion: Zadie Smith on an engraving of Dante's Inferno
    • Photography: Christy Lange on photographing war
    • Poetry: Kirsty Bell interviews Jimmie Durham
    • Portrait: Quinn Latimer on Sylvia Sleigh
    • Postcard: Luc Sante on an anonymous image from 1910
    • Queer: Sean O'Toole on homophobia and South African art
    • Questions: Sophie Calle turns the tables
    • Relics: Amy Sherlock on art and destruction
    • Religion: Glenn Brown on Gerhard Richter
    • Ruins: George Pendle on England's acoustic defenses
    • Style: Vivian Sky Rehberg on Italo Calvino
    • Sublime: Michael Bracewell on Bridget Riley
    • Taste: Lynne Tillman on 'a word no one discusses'
    • Teaching: Mark Godfrey talks to Phyllida Barlow
    • Technology: Jonathan Griffin on Mark Leckey
    • Television: Jim Lewis on 'Ren & Stimpy'
    • Travel: Dominic Eichler on the road with Danh Vo
    • Utopia: Susan Hiller on Hélio Oiticica
    • Visionaries: Ralph Rugoff interviews J. G. Ballard
    • War: Eyal Weizman on critical theory and conflict
    • Women: Jennifer Higgie on Carol Rama
    • Writers: Charlie Fox on Robert Walser' criticism
    • X: Bruce Hainley on 'the looking in looking away'
    • YBAs: Matthew Slotover on the 'Saatchi Decade'
    • Zeitgeist: Dan Fox on British art of the nineties
    • Authors' biographies
    • Index
    • Image credits
    • contents.
    Other title(s)
    Frieze a to z of contemporary art
    ISBN
    • 0714871990 ((hardback))
    • 9780714871998 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016439655
    OCLC
    949911081
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