The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram - Notes - e-flux

Andrea Fraser lays out the five subfields of contemporary art and their complex interrelations.

These days, whenever I meet with art students for the first time, I invariably find myself pulling up my diagram of the field of contemporary art. Sometimes I’m trying to address their confusion about the art world. More often I feel that I can’t productively engage their work and goals without first clarifying how and where they are positioned in the field. The diagram represents the field of contemporary art fragmenting into relatively autonomous subfields. These include the art-market subfield, the exhibition subfield, the academic subfield, a multitude of community-based subfields, and…

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