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Art: World Currents is the first comprehensive worldwide survey of contemporary art from thes to the present day, Author Terry Smith argues that, in recent decades, a global shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred: artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities and new technologies.
Alongside more thancarefully selected color images of key works, Terry Smith offers the first account of these changes, from their historical beginnings to the present day.
Exploring key works by both well known
and littleknown artists, the author shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during thes and then became a global phenomenon as artworlds everywhere began to connect more closely: new communicative technologies and expanding social media are now shaping the future of art.

Contemporary Art: World Currents breaks new ground in tracing how modern, traditional and indigenous art became contemporary in each cultural region of the world, ranging across Western, East and Central Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean, Oceania, Africa, and the Middle East.
Terry Smith lays the groundwork for a new comparative approach to contemporary art, emphasizing its relationships to all aspects of contemporary life, He argues that it is cultural diversity and individual

artistic inventiveness, not a convergence towards sameness, which makes today's art contemporary,
Contemporary Art: World Currents brings the subject right uptodate, highlighting the concerns of contemporary artists while giving the reader an invaluable insight to art today.
Teaching and Learning Experience Improve Critical Thinking Explore how contemporary art has become a global, connected phenomenon Engage Students Looks at the work of contemporary artists from across the world.
Support Instructors Image PowerPoints slides are available for Contemporary Art: World Currents, Dry writing, boring textbook

,/Este libro ayuda a conocer los orígenes del arte contemporáneo, Hace la confirmada distinción entre el arte moderno y el contemporáneo, La ruptura empezó en los años sesenta con definiciones como el Pop, feminismo, minimalismo, conceptualismo, la corporalidad, los happenings, el yo y la sexualidad, entre otros.
Después hace revista de la explosión que tuvo el arte contemporáneo de los años ochentas, Aquí menciona a los artistas de las dos Alemanias, la posmodernidad como crítica de la cultura y la escuela británica,

Pero lo que más disfrute no fue el arte del primer mundo, sino ese arte que se construye de manera sencilla y con pocos medios en el mal llamado tercer mundo.
Con este libro pude conocer lo que sucede en África, China, Oceanía y América Latina, El arte del postcolonialismo, tiene una energía y un discurso muy potente, Es el arte que se parece a nosotros,

El libro es un poco frío, pero hace lo que promete: conocer el arte contemporáneo a nivel global The writing of contemporary history is always a Herculean undertaking, perhaps more so for those cultural historians in the arts.
The lack of a temporal distance between the observer and the observed often renders the task of identifying a pattern, let alone narrative, unbelievably challenging so it is only understandable, or necessary by definition, that contemporary historical scholarship are less explanatory yet more descriptive and disjointed.
The global reach of this book is both a blessing and a curse: it presents a panorama covering a long list of countries but it is an impossible task, for both the reader and the writer, to understand the development of any country's contemporary art inorpages.
The first and third sections, both thematic, are more coherent than the second, geographybased one,

An important entry point to global contemporary art but also with some runofthemill uninspired prose, Sort of a brief sketch of the global turn to Contemporaneity,

On the one hand, the book which is divided geographically and thematically lacks depth, precision and detail, but given the scope of the topic this is understandable.
However, what's more important Smith does not provide rigorous philosophical and critical foundation and his methodology could, arguably, be more diverse: he panders to somewhat obvious socioeconomicopolitical implications of the globalization.
. . etc. Plenty of factual errors, such as getting West Germany's official name wrong, although minor, further complicate credibility,

On the other hand, taking into account the immensity of the topic, Smith successfully builds an inclusive yet brief worldnarrative, and if that's the aim of the book, I would not abstain from recommending it.
One would certainly have new points and connections in his/her 'cognitive mapping' Australian art historian, art critic and artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, New York and Sydney.
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