Essential! The long-awaited new glossary of contemporary art provides a compact overview of the most important phenomena in contemporary art across 376 pages. Leading theorists of our time describe, analyze, and evaluate the development of art from 1960 to the present in 90 concise essays. At the same time, the influential discourses in art are presented, and their cultural power of definition is illuminated and questioned. The intellectualization of art history and art theory observed over the past few decades is characterized, among other things, by its interdisciplinary approach: alongside traditional questions and methods, discourse-analytical, social-historical, gender-theoretical, media-analytical, post-colonial, and visual studies perspectives have long since established themselves. This is particularly relevant to the present time.