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Contemporary art has never been so popular, but what is its role today and who is controlling its future? Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch...

An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object and artistic authorship in the last four decades....

This ambitious reference work charts the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. Dual chronological and thematic coverage of the...

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best...

Stressing the human aspects of auditing, this text presents dozens of examples of real audits, with cases divided into thematic sections including comprehensive auditing cases, audits of high-risk accounts, internal control issues, ethical responsibilities of accountants and of independent auditors,...

Until now, no dictionary has ever attempted to record the fascinating and often raunchy inventory of English sexual euphemisms. Jordan Tate has confronted this task with gusto and the results are nothing short of gratifying. The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual...

Stressing the human aspects of auditing, this text presents dozens of examples of real audits, with cases divided into thematic sections including comprehensive auditing cases, audits of high-risk accounts, internal control issues, ethical responsibilities of accountants and of independent auditors,...

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply...

In response to an escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Gale's Contemporary Authors New Revision Series provides the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. Editors have scoured dozens of publications and online sources in search of the...