Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Public Offerings presents breakthrough works by some of the most important and challenging artists to emerge in the past decade, exploring the conditions, consequences and contexts that surround their first 'public offerings'. It provides a critical overview of art at the beginning of the 21st century. Youth is a highly relevant factor in the development of these works, just as it has been in the advancement of contemporary music and literature, and even the sciences. Young artists are now among today's most critically discussed and visible practitioners. All the artists featured in this collection graduated from prestigious colleges of art in Britain, the United States, Germany and Japan, and their success has raised the profile of art schools and the issue of their increasingly important role. While confident in their conception, execution and theatrical vigour, the works included here also represent a fragile moment in the artists' development. The art clearly demonstrates the impact of the particular art school and regional identity. Along with the complex network of travelling critics and curators, international exhibitions, regional and global art journals, and ambitious gall

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Director's Foreword (p. 06)
• Acknowledgements (p. 07)
• Public Offerings (p. 10)
• Janine Antoni (p. 014)
• Matthew Barney (p. 020)
• Thomas Demand (p. 028)
• Renee Green (p. 036)
• Michael Joaquin Grey (p. 042)
• Damien Thirst (p. 050)
• Gary Hume (p. 058)
• Toba Khedoori (p. 064)
• Sharon Lockhart (p. 072)
• Sara Lucas (p. 078)
• Steve Mcqueen (p. 086)
• Takashi Murakami (p. 092)
• Yoshitomo Nara (p. 098)
• Chris Ofili (p. 102)
• Laura Owens (p. 108)
• Tsuyoshi Ozawa (p. 114)
• Jorge Bardo (p. 120)
• Manfred Bernice (p. 128)
• Jason Rhoades (p. 134)
• Yutaka Sone (p. 142)
• Diana Thater (p. 148)
• Rirkrit Tiravanisa (p. 156)
• Rachel Whiteread (p. 162)
• Jane and Louise Wilson (p. 170)
• Checklist of the Exhibition (p. 176)
• Artist Biographies (p. 179)
• List of Contributors (p. 188)
• Lenders to the Exhibition (p. 189)
• From My Institution to Yours (p. 287)
• L.A.-Based and Superstructure (p. 265)
• Conversation Days: New Japanese Art Between 1991 and 1995 (p. 247)
• Art Academies and Alternative Environments (p. 229)
• The Economics of Culture: the Revival of British Art in the 80s (p. 219)
• Young Americans (p. 207)