Art: 60-206 Contemporary Visual Culture 1960-present: Broad Surveys and Book Series

Archer, Michael. Art Since 1960. London: Thames and Hudson.
HUNT FA-REF N6490 .A669 2014
 

Dezeuze, Anna. The Do-It Yourself Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press, 2010.
HUNT STACKS-4 N7433.915 .D6 2010
 

Erjavec, Aleš. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-century Avant-garde Movements. Durham ; London: Duke University Press.
HUNT STACKS-2 BH301 .A94 A37 2015
 

Foster, Hal,, et al. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. Third edition. New York: Thames & Hudson.
HUNT FA-REF-4  NX456 .A78 2016
 

Grovier, Kelly.  Art Since 1989. London: Thames and Hudson (World of Art Series).
STACKS-4 N6490 .G7244 2015
 

Joselit, David. American Art Since 1945. London: Thames & Hudson.
HUNT FA-REF-4  N6512 .J68 2003  
  

Kocur, Zoya,, and Simon Leung. Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
HUNT STACKS-4 N66 .T49 2013
 

Palmer, Daniel. Photography and Collaboration : From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing.
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
E-BOOK
 

Parmesani, Loredana. Art of the Twentieth Century: Movements, Theories, Schools and Tendencies, 1900-2000. Milano; New York: Skira, 2000.
HUNT STACKS-4 N6490 .P375 2000
 

Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th-century Art .London: Thames and Hudson.
HUNT STACKS-4 N6494 .M78 R88 1999
and New Media Art
HUNT STACKS-4 N6494 .M78 R88 2005

Weintraub, Linda, et.al. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s. Litchfield, CT: Art Insights, 1996.
FA-REF-4 N6490 .W45 1996

 

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Heywood, Ian, et al. The Handbook of Visual Culture. English ed. London: Berg, 2012.
HUNT STACKS-4 N72 .S6 H36 2012
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Book series in Cameo covering all aspects of contemporary art

Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
MIT Press

Discussions in Contemporary Culture
Dia Foundation

Documents of Contemporary Art Series
Each book in the series numbering over 30 topics is an anthology on a particular theme or practice significant to contemporary culture.
 

Issues in Cultural Theory
Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland
 

Rethinking Art's  Histories
Manchester University Press

Robert Lehman Lecture Series on Contemporary Art
Dia Center for the Arts

World of Art (Thames and Hudson)

These concise histories are useful for getting a quick overview of artists, art movements and periods over history including the following contemporary time periods and topics:

Small and alternative publisher booklists in Cameo covering all aspects of contemporary art.
 

 
Autonomedia
 

Critical Art Ensemble (as publisher)
Critical Art Ensemble
 

de- dis ex- (Black Dog)

Semiotext(e)
 

Zone Books

Related research guides
Art: Critical Studies
Art:Contemporary Artists

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