Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-226) and index.
Art and literature : Robert Motherwell's Riverrun / Marcelin Pleynet -- The shining cuckoo / Wystan Curnow -- Jannis Kounellis and the question of high art / Stephen Bann and William Allen -- David Reed : an abstract painter in the age of 'postmodernism' / David Carrier -- Romance of the real : Jonathan Lasker's Double-Play / Rainer Crone and David Moos -- Susan Smith's archaeology / Yve-Alain Bois -- Perverse space / Victor Burgin -- 'Salle/Lemieux' : elements of a narrative / Paul Smith -- Echo and reflections / David Reason -- From world to earth : Richard Deacon and the end of nature / Michael Newman.
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Each contributor to Interpreting contemporary art has looked at his chosen painting, sculpture, photograph or installation with a conviction that the work's own importance can be enhanced by what is written about it. The range of contributions covers a broad international field, touching upon virtually all the most significant art-forms of the present day.--BACK COVER.