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The Perpetual Guest

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Perpetual Guest

By Barry Schwabsky

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About the book

The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. In surveying the art world of this past decade, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces-among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson-but their f...Show more

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9781784783242

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

The Perpetual Guest

Format

Paperback

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