Best books on contemporary art?

best books on contemporary art?

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Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

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Not that user, but that work of Benjamin is absolutely necessary reading to talk about any modern or contemporary art, even if it precedes contemporary works. It's entry level stuff that you can't go without reading.

>inb4 culdural marxism!!

Don't let the title fool you, it explores more about art than you've probably considered about it in your life altogether.

Art Since 1900
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
The Anti-Aesthetic
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Image-Music-Text

read this 50 page book op

I like these recommendations but oh god how much i hate the october clique rending of the french theory writing style ! art since 1900 (esp. vol 2) nauseates me so much.

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