Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, University of Kent. He is the author of Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time (2008) and co-author of Art History: The Basics (2008).

Contemporary British Art is an ideal introduction to the field. To guide the reader, the book is organised around genres or related practices - painting; sculpture and installation; and film, video and performance. Chapters also include further reading suggestions, classified by genre in order to support and orientate the reader.

Extensively illustrated with a wide range of work (both known, and less well-known) from artists such as Chris Ofili, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Anthony Gormley, Jack Vettriano, Sam Taylor-Wood, Steve McQueen and Tracey Emin, and many more.

Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Illustrations Figures Plates Introduction 1. Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Market and its Institutions 2. Post-Conceptual British Painting 3. Installation Art and Sculpture as Institutional Paradigms 4. New Media in Transition: Photography, Video & the Performative Post-Conceptual British Art: New Directions Home Bibliography Index