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About the book >.>.> In recent decades artists have progressively expanded the boundaries of art as they have sought to engage with an increasingly pluralistic environment. Teaching curating and understanding of art and visual culture are likewise no longer grounded in traditional aesthetics but centred on significant ideas topics and themes ranging from the everyday to the uncanny the psychoanalytical to the political. The Documents of Contemporary Art series emerges from this context. Each volume focuses on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence in contemporary art internationally. Edited and introduced by a scholar. artist critic or curator each of these source books provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives defining a significant theme or tendency. For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has offered a public platform for art and ideas. In the same spirit each guest editor represents a distinct yet diverse approach – rather than one institutional position or school of thought- and has conceived each volume to address not only a professional audience but all interested readers. (SP)