Transmedium

"Transmedium performs important critical work: it identifies, describes, catalogs, and historicizes a commanding array of contemporaneous artworks that probe material differences between media. Garrett Stewart calls this set of artworks 'Conceptualism 2.0, ' to suggest its continuities with, and differences from, Conceptual art of the sixties and seventies. Stewart is one of the great close readers of our time and his discovery of contemporary art's polemical engagement with theories of medial convergence is both absorbing and galvanizing."-- "Karla Oeler, Stanford University"
"The book is important as an account of what these many stylistically divergent trends in the arts have in common aesthetically. . . . the term transmedium has enormous promise as a mechanism for understanding contemporary museum and gallery art."-- "Critical Inquiry"
"This remarkable book offers a wholly compelling account of the contemporary art world, taking the reader on an imaginary walking tour through real galleries and recent shows that feels both idiosyncratic and wholly inevitable. Making a zigzag path between the particular and the general, the necessary and the contingent, the medium and its refusal, Transmedium succeeds both as a specific engagement with an important and unfolding moment in the history of art practice and as a dazzling and inimitable methodological performance."-- "Kent Puckett, University of California, Berkeley"