Counter-Realism: Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism

An ambitious and original study with case studies focusing on the works of William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price, Counter-realism shows the ways in which key features of contemporary art may be understood in relation to fundamental aspects of contemporary political and economic life.

Tamara Trodd is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh