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The Turner Prize: Twenty years by Virginia Button (Tate Publishing, 2003)
2003 marks the 20th anniversary of the Turner Prize. This book offers an opportunity to look back over all the artists that have taken part in the prize, allowing readers to make their own selection, including those shortlisted in 2003. All the artists are illustrated alongside a brief summary of their careers.
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Tate Modern: The handbook by Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson (Tate Gallery, 2000)
Written to celebrate the opening of the new Tate Modern gallery at Bankside, this book introduces the building, the collection and the new approach to curating modern and contemporary art according to theme.
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Moving Targets 2: A user's guide to British art now by Louisa Buck (Tate Gallery, 2000)
Presents a guide to the contemporary British art scene: the artists, the key players, experts, collectors, organisations, controversies, venues, best magazines and events.
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This Is Modern Art by Matthew Collings (Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 2000)
A guide to modern art, written by Turner Prize awards presenter and critic Matthew Collings. Printed to accompany the television series of the same name.
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Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection by Richard Shone et al (Thames and Hudson, 1998)
Exhibition catalogue of Sensation, featuring more than 40 of the most radical artists working in Britain today.
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Young British Art: The Saatchi decade by Jonathan Barnbrook (Booth-Clibborn, 1999)
This well-designed book documents Charles Saatchi's huge collection of work by British contemporary artists. It contains many photographs of works, interviews, articles and comments from the artists themselves.
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The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change by Robert Hughes (Thames and Hudson, 1991)
This is an updated and enlarged edition of the classic history of 20th-century art by the critic and broadcaster. Includes a chapter on the 1980s.
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After Modern Art 1945-2000 by David Hopkins (Oxford University Press, 2000)
A concise interpretation of contemporary art in its postwar cultural context. Includes discussion of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst.
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Art History After Modernism by Hans Belting and Caroline Saltzwedel (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Belting examines how art is made, viewed and interpreted today. Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history had built for it, he calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
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Modern Art Despite Modernism by Robert Storr (Museum of Modern Art, 2002) US edition only, available through online bookshops.
This text by Turner Prize judge Robert Storr explores anti-modernism, as seen in painting and sculpture through the social, political and cultural conflicts of the 1920-40s.
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Quotidiana: The continuity of the everyday in 20th century art' by David A Ross and Nicholas Serota (Charta, 2000)
Part-written by Turner Prize jury chairman Nicholas Serota, this book accompanies the Quotidiana exhibition. Over 200 works by figures in modern and contemporary art movements are discussed in depth.
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