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Joanna Mendelssohn

Joanna Mendelssohn is an Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

Joanna Mendelssohn reviews 'What Is Contemporary Art?' by Terry Smith

February 2011, no. 328 01 February 2011
At the beginning of his new book, Terry Smith writes that one of the fundamental qualities ‘of the contemporary: [is] its contemporaneousness’. He writes of the contemporary, contemporaries, contemporaneity, contemporaneous, noncontemporaries, cotemporality, cotemporalities, and cotemporal. It is a kind of tautological word game that goes down well in academic conferenceville, which is where s ... (read more)