THE CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION

Can we speak of composition when we are in a state of unfathomable decomposition? Art being made today defies coherent categorizatio n, and the world presents itself, day after day, as spinning into confused chaos, structural disintegration, and violent disorder. R evising his well-known histories of contemporary art, Terry Smith argues that we must respond to the compelling need for coeval comp osition at a time defined by the contemporaneity of divisive difference. This book traces howdespite many obstaclesvisual artists across the ...[Read more]