Product Description: Since 1984 the Turner Prize has been instrumental in bringing about a sea change in the attitude and awareness of the public to contemporary art. No other prize has provoked so much controversy or critical debate. Pickled cows, unmade beds, and winking lightbulbs have grabbed the headlines and dominated the debate in recent years...read more

Product Description: The achievement of Christopher Wood has often been overshadowed by the legend that grew up around his life after his dramatic suicide at the age of 29. Increasingly, however, critics have come to see his work, particularly the output of the last two years of his life, as having a pivotal role in the development of modernism in Britain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of the Turner Prize, which has done more than anything else to bring contemporary art to the attention of a wider audience in Britain. 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...read more

Product Description: "Intelligence" suggests both covert information gathering and the faculty used to process information into something new. Many contemporary artists might be seen as intelligence agents at large in society, gathering, sifting, and transforming the raw data of our lives, critically examining our environment, the way we live and our social relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)