# What Is Contemporary Art?

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- Book: [What Is Contemporary Art?](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-flux-journal/what-is-contemporary-art) ([What Is Contemporary Art?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-flux-journal/what-is-contemporary-art.md))
- Authors: [E-Flux Journal](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-flux-journal)
- Publisher: sternberg_press
- ISBN: 978-19-3410-510-8
- Pages: 216
- Published: 2010-09-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave...