What Was Contemporary Art?
by Richard Meyer F'94, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art.
Now available from MIT Press.
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.
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Filmed by Stephen Pagano and Tom Salvaggio. Edited by Tom Salvaggi for MOCA.