Introduction 1. Contemporary art’s global histories and futures 2. Contemporary art beyond western modernism 3. The cultural politics of contemporary art in the post-1945 world 4. The crises of contemporary art’s interpretations 5. Contemporary art within and beyond national imaginaries Conclusion
Biography
Jonathan Harris is Professor of Art History at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, UK. He is the author/editor of 25 books, including The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001), Art History: The Key Concepts (Routledge, 2006), The Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution 1919–2009 (2013), Terrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production (Routledge, 2021), and, with Menene Gras and Bashir Makhoul, Contemporary Art in Global Asia (Routledge, 2023). Harris is a specialist in modern and contemporary art.
